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I knew I wanted the parties in 'The Queen of the Night' to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on a scale that was both grand and intimate. There were several texts that helped me think about how to do this, and one of the most important ones was Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette.'
Alexander Chee
Beautiful
Me
Queen
Important
Think
Dramatic
Intimate
Several
Scale
Significant
About
Charlotte
Both
Knew
Most
Parties
Also
How
Were
Texts
Situations
The Most Important
Where
Wanted
Happened
Grand
Convincing
Helped
Novel
Things
Night
In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.
Alexander Chee
Me
Experience
Writing
Queen
Speak
Ways
Unable
Some
About
Entirely
Could
Had
Read
Edinburgh
Child
Where
Happened
Novel
Night
In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel 'War and Peace' to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for the new edition of the novel, which he referred to by its original title,1805.
Alexander Chee
War
Peace
Single
Summer
Drawings
Hoping
Volume
He
New
Wrote
Edition
His
Referred
Commission
Which
Leo
Original
Novel
Tolstoy
Prepared
Published
Illustrator
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
Alexander McCall Smith
Life
Example
Every
Slice
Address
Mine
Some
More
Noir
For Example
Perhaps
Sort
Affirmative
Upbeat
Pathology
While
Dysfunction
Social
Novel
Present
Presents
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
Alexander Payne
Good
Cinema
Become
Good Movies
Bad
Exclusive
Like
Terms
Godfather
Literature
Movies
Succeeds
Jaws
Many
Novel
Novels
Film
Why
Good Film
I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, 'What can I do, mum? Entertain me.' I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, 'Wow, this is an amazing experience.'
Alexandra Adornetto
Myself
Me
Experience
Writing
School
Amazing
Thought
Took
Entertain
Bored
Wow
About
Something
Never
Instead
Over
Until
Occupy
Amazing Experience
Just
Wanted
Happened
Realised
Holidays
Asking
Really
Novel
Mum
Started
Chance
So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants... We did some novel remixes of it but, at the end of the day, it was that: Grit and good luck.
Alexis Ohanian
Good
Day
End Of The Day
Luck
Good Luck
Giants
Some
Reddit
Built
End
Did
Grit
Much
Product
Shoulders
Novel
That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.
Alfred Hershey
You
Whatever
Sense
Research
Nice
About
Only
New
Always
Doing
Gadget
Using
Even
Nice Thing
Novel
Novelty
Thing
I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
Alice McDermott
Faith
Believe
Think
About
Above
Charming
Ultimately
Choose
Billy
Novel
Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
Alice McDermott
Great
You
Book
Reading
Publish
Think
Pleasure
Some
Something
Rather
More
Great Pleasure
Idea
Sort
Readers
Another
Than
Suspect
Just
Taught
Being
Want
Information
Which
Being There
Even
Novel
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
Alice McDermott
Legal
World
Pen
Those
Able
Having
Write
Like
Going
Just
Romance
Being
Anywhere
Pad
Original
Novel
Things
Two
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
Alice Munro
Me
You
Change
Writing
Seriously
Thought
Trouble
First
Nothing
Think
Books
Has-Been
Besides
More
Writer
Troubles
Taken
Wishing
Until
Wrote
Were
Been
Lot
Five
Than
Short
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Used
Novel
Now
Kept
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.
Alice Munro
Out
Something
Write
Never
Come
Like
Ideas
Look
Well
Material
Still
Up
Intend
Going
Short
Want
Stories
Break
Break Up
Short Stories
Happens
Them
Really
Turns
Certainly
Even
Novel
Novels
Why
Start
I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.
Alice Munro
Life
You
Experience
People
Will
Guess
Way
Bit
See
Give
Remake
Write
Feel
Longer
Attracted
Understand
Intense
Want
Story
Themselves
Connected
Moments
Novel
Zero
Things
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
Alison Bechdel
People
Important
Reading
Think
Something
Finish
Know
How
How Much
Author
Want
Happened
Much
Really
Novel
Why
Things
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!
Alison Weir
History
People
Finished
First
Down
Books
Those
Carried
Out
Find
About
Proper
Could
Adult
Facts
Had
Put
True
Days
Like
Read
Historical
Began
History Books
Did
Behind
Story
Story Books
Really
Katherine
Novel
Found
Fourteen
'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
Alvaro Enrigue
Sad
Character
Book
Writing
First
Differences
Extremely
About
Parrot
Glance
Clear
Between
Narrator
Than
Author
Personal
Essay
Gradually
Which
Transformed
Less
Appear
Novel
Appears
In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.
Alvaro Enrigue
Key
Free
Jazz
Interpretation
Air
Boom
City
John
Composed
Brought
Economic
Clear
Read
Mexican
Mexico
Mexico City
Where
Manhattan
Transfer
Modernization
Novel
Growth
Portrait
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
Amanda Plummer
People
World
Strong
School
Try
Girl
First
Met
Become
About
Propensity
Poetry
Had
Disappear
Invisible
Wrote
She
Still
Very
Grade
Grade School
Woods
Loved
Which
Little
Little Girl
Novel
Lived
Imaginary
Imaginary World
Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
Amandla Stenberg
Dreams
Myself
Mom
Character
Me
Mother
Important
Reading
Months
Hunger
Hunger Games
Possible
Telling
See
Could
Reminds
Because
Within
Important Role
Role
Getting
Just
Just Because
Wanted
After
Manifest
If I Could
Much
Games
Novel
Actually
'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'
Amitava Kumar
God
Small Things
Father
Say
Obedient
Some
Small
Write
Had
Perhaps
Wrote
She
Wanted
Might
Novel
Things
Roy
Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.
Amity Gaige
Vision
Somewhere
Sets
More
Both
California
Make
Era
Debut
Novel
Helps
Credible
Her
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
Amor Towles
Music
Change
Architecture
Painting
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Evolving
Pretty
Seems
Observable
Retrospect
Industry
Were
Arts
Pace
Century
Novel
In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.
Amor Towles
Myself
Day
Book
Coffee
College
First
Our
Summer
Station
Would
Find
Weeks
Pouring
Open
Exciting
Retreat
House
Read
Comfortable
How
Making
Years
Train
June
After
Sentences
Next
Novel
Platform
Porch
Two
Two Weeks
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
Amos Oz
News
People
Nationalism
Everyday
Everyday People
About
Never
Headlines
Sort
Makes
Israel
Same
Precisely
Any
Fanaticism
Which
Anywhere
Far
Sea
Militancy
Novel
Fundamentalism
Set
I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
Amy Adams
Music
Remember
Car
Long
Before
Own
Took
Seven
Trips
My Own
Could
Long Road
Road
Got
How
iPads
Lot
Listen
Novel
Players
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