Quotes About Author

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

Coming out of college, I got a lot of notoriety for being the old-school center.

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

A good novel editor is invisible.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.