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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami
Time
You
Creative
People
Every
Every Time
Say
Bored
More
Write
Disappointed
Practical
Get
Expecting
Artistic
Want
Dynamic
Novel
Thing
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami
Time
Will
Living
Think
Society
Would
Some
About
Write
Outside
Since
Come
Like
Am
America
Often
Whether
While
Japanese
Asked
Next
Novel
Set
Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
Haruki Murakami
Work
Me
Strong
Before
Sense
Unable
Inside
Strong Sense
Something
Something New
Write
Step
New
Am
Doing
Discover
Up
Move
Whenever
Novel
Each
Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.
Heather Brooke
Good
Secrecy
Sexy
Mystery
Any
Essential
Novel
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
Heinrich Mann
Better
Way
Construct
Better Way
Contains
Ideas
Making
Than
Which
Novel
Elevating
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.
Helen Dunmore
Research
Enjoy
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Fact
Write
Never
Go
Years
In Fact
Engaging
Novel
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
Helen Dunmore
Writing
Difficulties
Setting
Pleasures
Similar
Contemporary
Concerned
However
Historical
Itself
As Far As
Far
Novel
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Helen Dunmore
You
Pour
Shape
Container
End
Trying
In The End
Story
Which
Your
Novel
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.
Helen Vendler
You
Together
Spider
Down
Intricate
Find
Web
Liked
Look
James
Height
Helicopter
Teaching
Novel
Henry
Henry James
For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.
Henning Mankell
Me
Political
Furious
Spend
Ghastly
Critique
Institutions
Forced
Were
Children
Poor
Who
Novel
Lives
Orphans
Oliver
Twist
Early
Treatment
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
Obligation
Arbitrary
Only
Advance
Without
Accusation
May
Being
Hold
Which
Interesting
Novel
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
Hilary Mantel
Me
Writing
Half
Wolf
Think
Took
Along
Hall
Been
Should
Page
Novel
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Hilary Mantel
Book
Answers
Questions
Should
Novel
In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.
Hisham Matar
Me
Book
Speak
Father
Men
First
Country
Gave
Libya
Record
About
Bigger
Novel
Platform
Publication
Published
Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.
Holly Black
Day
You
Every Day
Words
Three
Half
Every
Months
Write
Did
Six
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Novel
This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network.
Howard Jacobson
You
Culture
Christ
Before
Band
Our
Musical
Way
Network
Steppenwolf
Look
Princess
Up
LinkedIn
Get
Social
Novel
Now
Jesus
Jesus Christ
I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that moment when seeing is suddenly occluded and you know you can go no further.
Howard Jacobson
Work
Character
You
Past
Gave
Once
Philosophy
Further
Seeing
Point
Know
Go
Get
Same
Any
Inability
Moment
Novel
Suddenly
As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down.
Howard Jacobson
Money
Finished
First
Own
Down
Changed
Despair
Enough
Enough Money
See
About
My Own
Could
Soon
Bleeding
Since
Like
Readers
Because
Been
Question
Offered
Canadian
American
Going
English
Novel
Lukewarm
Publisher
Career
Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous.
Howard Jacobson
Man
Business
Own
Mine
Indeed
Out
Fraught
Crops
Oneself
Only
Perilous
Print
Readers
Always
Fallen
Years
Up
Very
Revisiting
Model
After
Conversations
Many
Novel
Novels
Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.
Howard Jacobson
Me
You
Job
Comic
Doing
Show
Novel
For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.
Howard Jacobson
You
Generation
Book
Disagree
Think
Assumed
Dramatic
Eye
Telling
My Generation
Something
Days
Readers
Lot
Agree
Novel
Thing
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Howard Nemerov
Work
Class
Business
Puritan
Retail
Over
Practically
Middle
Middle Class
Again
Novel
Serious
Why
Conscientious
Application
Jewish
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
Hu Shih
Strange
People
First
Changes
Tools
Ways
Unavoidable
Brought
Contact
Vehicles
New
Days
Goods
Western
Commerce
Beginnings
China
Chinese
Social
Chinese People
Social Changes
Novel
Early
Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.
Hugh Grant
You
People
Think
Say
More
Could
Write
Like
Comfortable
Discover
Lots
Than
Going
Who
Novel
Actually
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.
Hugh Laurie
Life
Good
Entertainment
Month
Way
Punctuation
Seems
Week
Absolutely
Feels
Celebrating
Celebrity
Your
Used
Novel
Film
Now
Play
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.
Hugh Laurie
Life
Remember
Rest
My Life
Resolved
Pick
Over
Read
Because
Just
Anymore
Anything
Cannot
Again
Novel
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