Novel Quotes - page 12

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. (Nicholas Meyer)

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

Noah Baumbach

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

O. R. Melling

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Peter Bichsel

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

Peter Temple

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

Richard Schickel

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Robert Reed

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Ronald Blythe

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

Sergio Aragones

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

Stephen Collins

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. (Stuart Woods)

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

Sara Paretsky

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

Sara Paretsky

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Tobias Wolff

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

Tobias Wolff

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

Tom Sizemore

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Tom T. Hall

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

Tracy Kidder

A good novel editor is invisible.

Terri Windling

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

Utada Hikaru

I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains. (Carlo Rovelli)

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

Sidney Sheldon

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Sidney Sheldon

I have descended to the depths of suffering, and it seems to me that after that one cannot help being raised up. But I have spent the last three nights weeping. Pity! Pity! Remembrance is the true imperishable life... I should like to live my life over again, to record it, to admit my weaknesses; no, this is useless; I have sinned, I have suffered, I have atoned for it. I could write only a bad novel by relating what has been related a thousand times.

Berthe Morisot

Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famous unfathomable question in his best-known novel, Native Son. Who knows when some slight shock, he asks, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?

Daniel Handler

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