Novel Quotes - page 42

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels. (Peter York)
If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web. View quote
Philip Greenspun
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. View quote
Paul Berg
Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process. View quote
Paul Di Filippo
It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. View quote
Richard Helms
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. View quote
Rick Bass
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. View quote
Robert Gottlieb
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets. View quote
Robert Hass
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998. View quote
Robert MacNeil
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine. View quote
Richard Dooling
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything. (Shane Carruth)
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. View quote
Sloane Crosley
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. View quote
Stephen Rea
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design. View quote
Steve Albini
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. View quote
Steven Bochco
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. View quote
Steven Saylor
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? View quote
Steven Saylor
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. View quote
Suzanne Brockmann
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. View quote
Sydney Pollack
The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou. View quote
Taiye Selasi
Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel. (Thomas Steinbeck)
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.' View quote
Tim O'Brien
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers. View quote
Tobias Wolff
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel. View quote
Tom Rachman
I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it. View quote
Tony D'Souza