Quotes About Creativity

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I've never abandoned the novel.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.