Quotes About Novel

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

I don't discuss works in progress.

Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which is what became 'The Invisible Circus.'

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.

I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Lewis Robinson's first novel, 'Water Dogs,' is stuffed with snow. Open practically any page of this book, and crystals will shake out.

A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

I wrote a story about a character who looks like Harry Styles. But it has nothing to do with Harry Styles at all.

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.