Novel Quotes - page 7

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. (Rose Tremain)
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. View quote
Rose Tremain
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. View quote
Rose Tremain
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. View quote
Sarah Pinborough
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married. View quote
Susanna Clarke
It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house-the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control. View quote
Tom Perrotta
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel. View quote
Tom Perrotta
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is. (William Boyd)
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close. View quote
William Boyd
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. View quote
Walter Hill
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. View quote
Walter Hill
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. View quote
Harlan Coben
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. View quote
Jose Bergamin
Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her. View quote
Junot Diaz
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer. View quote
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old. View quote
Daniel Steele
If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus. View quote
Dave Morris
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. View quote
Jane Smiley
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. View quote
Jane Smiley