Quotes About Novel

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.

SO endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man. When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop—that is, with a marriage; but when he writes of juveniles, he must stop where he best can. Most

Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you; you have no conversation with a popular novel. Whereas you do have a conversation (you have an intense argument) with [literary fiction].

I will now take the chance to repeat my contention that the drama is handily inferior to the novel and the poem. Dramatists who have lasted more than a century include Shakespeare and – who else? One is soon reaching for a sepulchral Norwegian. Compare that to English poetry and its great waves of immortality. I agree that it is very funny that Shakespeare was a playwright. I scream with laughter about it all the time. This is one of God's best jokes.

Félix J. Palma, author of the New York Times bestselling The Map of Time, inspired by H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, concludes his time-travel Victorian trilogy with a mesmerizing new novel, The Map of Chaos

One method of economy is 'leaving out' - firstly, everything that by the writer's standards is irrelevamt, in the second place everything that is obvious, i.e. which the reader can and should supply out of his own imagination. 'The more bloody good stuff you cut out the more bloody good your novel will be,' Hemingway advised a young writer.

What you've written isn't a novel. It's a cry for help." I

As far as I can tell, a young-adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.