Novel Quotes - page 32

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. (Jess Walter)

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

Jess Walter

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Jeffery Deaver

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

Jeffrey Eugenides

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Joan D. Vinge

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

John Boyne

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

John McGahern

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

John Thomas Sladek

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

Jonathan Coe

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

Jonathan Coe

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. (George Saunders)

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

George Saunders

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

Julie Kagawa

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

Justin Cronin

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Donna Leon

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Douglas Preston

It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.

E. Lockhart

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately.

E. Lockhart

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Aleksandar Hemon

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Aleksandar Hemon

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. (Edmund Phelps)

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

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

Elizabeth Berg

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

Elizabeth George

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