Novel Quotes - page 40

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets. (Julianna Baggott)
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect. View quote
Julianna Baggott
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man. View quote
Julie Walters
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. View quote
James Buchan
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment. View quote
James Dyson
The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television. View quote
James Frain
The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language. View quote
Kenneth Oppel
A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages. View quote
Kevin Nealon
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right. View quote
Kurt Busiek
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel. (Karen Traviss)
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value. View quote
Leslie Jamison
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. View quote
Lorrie Moore
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story. View quote
Lorrie Moore
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. View quote
Madison Smartt Bell
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. View quote
Albert S. Ruddy
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way. View quote
Carol Windley
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you. View quote
Caterina Scorsone
My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way. (Donald McKay)
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. View quote
George Murray
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'. View quote
Ian Williams
Monday Mornings' is terrific. It's my wife's show. I'm just lucky enough that David Kelley threw me a bone on it as well. It's a wonderful piece based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta called 'Monday Mornings. View quote
Jonathan Silverman
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel. View quote
Kate O'Mara