When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.
Shit happens. But so does magic." ~ Celia Wird, SEALED WITH A CURSE: A Weird Girls Novel
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante "verità" che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una censura implacabile ...
War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity...
The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by asking basic questions in the artful, liberating way that is unique to this form of writing. Echoes of it are fo...
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isola...
