A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.
