Quotes About Novel

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

'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.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

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

A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

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.'

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

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.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.