Quotes About Creativity

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.

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

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 wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and then later, seeing them on the screen, comparing how they're different.

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.