Quotes About Novel

Once you buy into a television show, there doesn't have to be resolution from week to week. You can develop characters and storylines and react to the audience, so you get more of a serialized version of storytelling where you can go much deeper into each character. It's more like a novel.

Printing novel DNA might open the way to achievements once only conceivable in science fiction: designer bacteria that can produce new chemicals, such as more efficient fuels, or synthetic versions of our cells that make us resistant to the effects of radiation.

At the bottom of a Peretti novel is the biblical view of things, the Christian message. Whether you're a Christian or not, you're still going to have to deal with good versus evil.

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus a movie.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Theres a propensity for me to bumble about as if Ive just jumped out of a PG Woodhouse novel, like a provincial vicar whos just been hit across the side of the head with a cricket ball at some speed.

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

I've been associated with Macmillan for over 45 years. I'd like to thank them for their continued commitment to my backlist and I look forward to continuing to work with them as they publish my next novel, 'Vicious Circle' in 2013.

It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

Although cocaine wasn't my thing, the guy was sporting a leather jacket and a Kereouac novel and I have a weakness for tough guys who read.

And watch for Midnight Fire, the next book in the Midnight series, coming soon!

She had spent that summer and early fall fancying herself a character in a Willa Cather novel, so caught up in the symbolic bounty of the harvest

Another great start to a new fantastic series