Novel Quotes - page 54

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for. (Salman Rushdie)
Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. View quote
Salman Rushdie
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before. View quote
Tamora Pierce
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel. View quote
Paullina Simons
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that. View quote
Sarah Vowell
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. View quote
Mordecai Richler
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. (Tom Robbins)
I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit. View quote
Tom Robbins
I sense that novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3 - although it writes much faster than I can spell. View quote
Tom Robbins
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' View quote
Tom Robbins
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. View quote
Tom Robbins
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. View quote
Daniel Craig
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl! View quote
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I love when a crucial novel leaves a trace in my memory. In this, its ending plays a significant part-creating a wake effect that is never erased. View quote
Maylis de Kerangal
So the novel is a race, and I can see the finish line from the first sentence: it's an intuition that magnetizes the entire text. The closer I get to the goal, the faster I want to go. There's even a sense of urgency, of hurrying, as though I was out of breath and had to, at all costs, finish before I ran out of strength. So I find that my endings are often too quick, not unfolded enough, not majestic enough... (Maylis de Kerangal)
I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. View quote
Nicole Krauss
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self. View quote
Nicole Krauss
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more. View quote
Colm Tóibín