Novels Quotes
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I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.
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I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart, the same that had burst out of my chest in that distant moment when Lila had proposed that we write a story together. It had fallen to me to do it seriously. But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts, which no one would ever do better than me, not even Lila if she had had the opportunity?
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Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.
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I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.
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I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
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Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda that might or might not have anything at all to do with reality. But then as now, being a canny and independent-minded consumer of popular media did not bar one from also enjoying being manipulated by it.
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I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts ...
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I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.
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The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
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It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.
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A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
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I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
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I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
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I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
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I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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Now there's nothing wrong with Booker prize novels - we all have wobbling tables or draughts coming in under the door
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I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.
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Novels allow me to create a whole world.
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Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.
