Quotes About Novel

So, in the end, I hoped that this novel would be judged by the same criteria that all novels should be judged by: Are the characters memorable? Is the story line credible? And does the novel help soften our hearts a little, does it induce in us feelings of compassion and empathy, does it make us understand something about human behavior in all its mysterious, even contradictory, glory?

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People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.

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.'

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

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

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

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 novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.