1137 Novel Quotes for You to Enjoy

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel. Leigh Brackett

Writing Possibly Exactly Exactly What He Effort Screenwriter Wants Cannot Process Team Team Effort Novel Filmmaking Filmmaking Process

A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It's a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel. Leigh Michaels

Love Book People Fall Love Story Every Ranch Classified More Horse Mystery Genre Western Very Than Just Romance Fiction Form Story Which Novel Specific Two Two People

In a romance novel, the core story is the developing relationship between a man and a woman. The other events in the story line, though important, are secondary to that relationship. Leigh Michaels

Relationship Man Woman Events Important Other Secondary Though Developing Between Line Romance Story Novel Core

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears. Leigh Whannell

You Eyes Writing Sit Down Thinking Films Ears Way One-Way Direct Only Scene Through Write Consumed Head Terms Read Because Maybe Being Different Your Novel Film Watching

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. Leslie Fiedler

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot. Leslie Fiedler

Art Thinking Way Alive Stays About Only Does Always Been Lot Die Dying Really Pop Pop Art Novel

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value. Leslie Jamison

Matter Mind Value Sick Way Thoroughly Unable Find Finishing Put Almost Blind Make Edit Fresh Always How Still Any Substantive After Story Either While Them Flaws Aside Novel Rough Draft

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

Book Ending Bad Something Habit Gotten Forgiving Just Middle Novel

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.' Linwood Barclay

Character First Situation Starts Others Hook Some Shape Head Taking What If Authors Place Novel Start Starting Imagine

For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours. Lionel Shriver

You Suffering World Fault Shine Else Something Something Else More Take Read Sake Continue Author Pity Yours Novel Loads

Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever. Lionel Shriver

Book Fans Rest Reputation Follow About Atrocious Could Talk Forever Movie Novel Novelists Film Lives Awful Need Adaptation Kevin

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado. Lisa Gardner

Me People Crime About Write Since Know Talk Am Done Suspense Aficionado Anything Really Who Novel Ever Keeps Things

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset. Lisa Graff

You People Lonely Past Sympathize Changing Everything Invaluable Having Network Through Writer Terror Issues Contract Very Going Being Your Who Profession Novel Asset

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never know at the outset how the book will end, nor do I ever stick to my original plan. Lisa Lutz

I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr. Lisa Lutz

My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.' Lisa Tuttle

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. Lisa Unger

Alone Business Writing Long Imagination Writer Self Road Novel Travels

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. Lois Lowry

People First Young Say Giver Adult Know Young Adult Dystopian Novel

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that? Lori Wilde

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. Lou Holtz

Depression Great Family Before Great Depression Plight John Wrath Born About His Years Wall Wall Street Eight After Crashed January Grapes Novel Published Street Two Pulitzer

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