Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Denise Mina

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Jeffery Deaver

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

Junot Diaz

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Jane Gardam

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

Jane Gardam

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

Julia Glass

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

John Irving

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

John Irving

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

Jessi Klein

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Joe Klein

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

Charlie Hunnam

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Anne McCaffrey

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Chuck Palahniuk

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

Diane Ladd

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

Donna Tartt

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

Glen Duncan

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Helen Fielding

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Jonathan Coe

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.

John Irving