1137 Novel Quotes for You to Enjoy

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. Steve Bisley

Truth You Writing Easier Memoir Constrained Than Novel

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them. Steven Rodney McQueen

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it? Sue Miller

You Events Challenge Will Think Rules Possibilities Characters Voice No Rules Write Part Know Greatest How Greatest Challenge Still Infinite Endless Want Form Choices Should Novel Start Necessary

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities. Sue Monk Kidd

You Writing Sometimes Chaos Possibilities Brood About Writing Process Journal Over Ideas Particularly Am Lot Itself Get Trying Process Really Novel Keeping Start Phase

Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists. Susan Barker

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There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first. Susan Isaacs

Character Me Wait First Way Right Way Plot Begin Novel Right

I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.' Svetlana Alexievich

Voices Write Name Genre Novel

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs. Sylvia Day

Focus Other Characters Entire Genres Romance Novel

I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story. T. C. Boyle

News Entertainment Science Value Scenario Writer Learn Read Arts Being Fiction Fiction Writer Story Informed Help Novel Widely

The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced. T. C. Boyle

Seduced Seduction Reader Novel

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s. Talulah Riley

Book First Introspective About Wrote Becoming Author Novel Set

I went through a phase in my 20s when I was overdosing on self-help books, so it was really refreshing to read 'The Alchemist' because it was a novel, but it still had the same wisdom, wasn't patronising and didn't tell you how you should live your life. Tamzin Outhwaite

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. Ted Rall

Great Think Written Anyone Graphic Novel

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation. Teju Cole

Conversation Will Analogue Immediately Recognise City Open Joyce Also Reader Because Passage Very Close Any Formal Literary Stories Novel

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. Terence Winter

Chapters Kind Find Critics Weekly Absurd Like Reviewing Who Novel

A good novel editor is invisible. Terri Windling

Good Invisible Editor Novel

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. Terry Brooks

It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own. Therese Fowler

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And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Thomas Keneally

Try Mind Folly Write Contract Craft Screen Novel

It took me a long time to know enough about writing to really write short stories. You can't just immerse yourself, as you do in a novel, and see where everything goes. Novels are a very flexible, accommodating form. Short stories aren't. Thomas McGuane

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

Work Hard Work Patience Experience Reading Characters Pretty Delayed Could Chastity Dull Which Hard Novel Gratification Illustrate

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. Thomas Steinbeck

Write Longest Since Greatest American Going Novel

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