Quotes of: Novel Keyword

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Leslie Fiedler

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Lev Grossman

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

Luanne Rice

The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.

Michael J. Kannengieser

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Richard Russo

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Rose Tremain

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Rose Tremain

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Rose Tremain

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

Michael Ondaatje

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Mordecai Richler

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

Matthew Stover

I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.

Nicholas Dettmann

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

David Wroblewski

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

Salman Rushdie

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Thomas Perry

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

Harlan Coben

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Neil Gaiman

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

Octavia E. Butler

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Kurt Busiek