Novel Quotes - page 9

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. (Kim Edwards)
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. View quote
Louise Penny
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel. View quote
Louise Penny
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success. View quote
Louise Penny
Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough. View quote
Louis de Bernieres
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. View quote
James Rollins
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. View quote
James Rollins
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. View quote
Lynn Abbey
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. View quote
Lynn Abbey
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. (Lynn Abbey)
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink. View quote
Barbara Pym
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. View quote
Julien Green
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel. View quote
James M. Cain
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal. View quote
Harmony Korine
The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. View quote
Gregory Maguire
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. View quote
Howard Nemerov
Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. "With swords,” Kat purred. "It is a romance novel! View quote
P. C. Cast
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! (Dodie Smith)
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. View quote
Hu Shih
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. View quote
Andrew Greeley
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works. View quote
Ann Beattie
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge. View quote
Anthony Minghella