Quotes About Novel

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

Craft protects one from facing endless expanding realities—the terror, let us say, of losing your novel in the depths of philosophical insights you are not ready to live with.

A man lays his character on the line when he writes a novel. Anything in him which is lazy, or meretricious, or unthought-out, complacent, fearful, overambitious, or terrified by the ultimate logic of his exploration will be revealed in his book.

The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: Novik, Naomi. Spinning Silver: A Novel (p. 196). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Critics are eager to discover a new voice. For some reason they're just as eager to be disappointed by a second novel.

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective

In order to find meaning and readerly pleasure in the universe the writer reveals to us, we feel we must search for the novel's secret center, and we therefore try to embed every detail of the novel in our memory, as if learning each leaf of a tree by heart.

But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel...Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us.

Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanlar? kararl?l?kla anlamama, romanc?l?k ise anlama iÅŸidir.

Edebi romana, büyük romanlara, hayat? anlamland?racak bir rehber gibi ihtiyaç duymam?z?n nedeni, kendimizi dünyada evde hissedememizdir.

Galip, bir keresinde, Rüyâ'ya yazar?n da katilin kim olduÄŸunu bilmediÄŸi bir polisiye roman yaz?l?rsa okuyaca??n? söylemiÅŸti.

why humanity has a spiritual need for a mirror (a custom-built mirror!) such as the novel.

The art of the novel is based on the craft of telling our own stories as if they belonged to others, and of telling other people's stories as if they were our own.

Roman kahramanlarinin karakterlerine, tuhafliklarina, unutulmazliklarina gosterilen asiri ve dengesiz ilgi, Avrupa'dan butun dunyaya, tipki romanin kendisi gibi yayildi.

I know there are many stances we can adopt towards the novel, many ways in which we commit our soul and mind to it, treating it lightly or seriously. And in just the same manner, I have learned by experience that there are many ways to read a novel. We read sometimes logically, sometimes with our eyes, sometimes with our imagination, sometimes with a small part of our mind, sometimes the way we want to, sometimes the way the books wants us to, and sometimes with every fiber of our being.

nobody ever wrote to me sayingyou know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!.....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

I'm not a character in one of your novels." "More's the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.