Novel Quotes - page 38

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. (Dana Spiotta)
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake. View quote
Dana Spiotta
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make. View quote
Daniel Alarcon
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. View quote
Daniel Alarcon
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. View quote
Daniel Clowes
The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. View quote
Daniel Woodrell
I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story. View quote
Dave Gibbons
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. View quote
Ellen Hopkins
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do. View quote
Eric Stoltz
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept. View quote
Eva Zeisel
The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification. (Fred Hammond)
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. View quote
Gloria Naylor
The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700. View quote
Graham Nelson
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself. View quote
Greg van Eekhout
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. View quote
Gay Talese
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn. View quote
Gene Hackman
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. View quote
George Barr McCutcheon
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing. View quote
Howard Gordon
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process. View quote
Howard Gordon
For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food. View quote
Hallie Ephron
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on. (Hari Kunzru)
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit. View quote
Hari Kunzru
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy. View quote
James Lasdun
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. View quote
James McBride
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. View quote
James Merrill