Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
Tags: Effort, Write ✍ Author: Meg CabotA novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
Tags: Exceptions, Points ✍ Author: Joyce CareyI never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.
Tags: Writer ✍ Author: Kim EdwardsNovel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
Tags: Art, Writing ✍ Author: Philip Gilbert HamertonA reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
Tags: Reader, Themselves ✍ Author: Philip Gilbert HamertonFor me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
Tags: Dance, Writing ✍ Author: Philip Gilbert HamertonI never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
Tags: Next, Writing ✍ Author: John IrvingThe building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
Tags: Building, Craft ✍ Author: John IrvingThe surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Tags: Run, Surprise ✍ Author: Ross MacDonaldWhen I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
Tags: Seriously, Write ✍ Author: William NicholsonI have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
Tags: Mine, Sufferings ✍ Author: Kenzaburo OeThe atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
Tags: Above, Literature ✍ Author: George OrwellAround the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.
Tags: Time, Wanted ✍ Author: Sara ParetskyIf I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Tags: Good, Write ✍ Author: Ted RallWhen I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Tags: Put, Together ✍ Author: Ted RallA novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Tags: Philosophy, Put ✍ Author: Jim RohnIn a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
Tags: Resist, Tell ✍ Author: J. K. RowlingVisit partners pages
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Tags: Life, Often ✍ Author: George SandThe novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Tags: Sea, Space ✍ Author: Jose SaramagoThe novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Tags: Arts, Time ✍ Author: Nathalie SarrauteNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Tags: Less, Night ✍ Author: Henry David ThoreauI wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
Tags: Thinking, Write ✍ Author: Kurt WaldheimMy new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.
Tags: Road, Short ✍ Author: Ayelet WaldmanI think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
Tags: Idea, Irony ✍ Author: Jess WalterThe first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
Tags: Fiction, Stories ✍ Author: Jess WalterThe way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
Tags: Together, Whole ✍ Author: Ahmet ZappaI sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
Tags: Old, Sold ✍ Author: Kevin J. AndersonNo novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
Tags: Characters, Though ✍ Author: Piers AnthonyIt would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Tags: Fiction, Write ✍ Author: Piers AnthonyI did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
Tags: After, Another ✍ Author: Piers AnthonyDo we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?
Tags: Lines, Speak ✍ Author: Julian BarnesIn 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
Tags: Anxiety, Hope ✍ Author: Julian BarnesI started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
Tags: Since, Started ✍ Author: Swizz BeatzThe impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Tags: Moment, True ✍ Author: Daniel BellWell, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
Tags: Faith, Research ✍ Author: William Peter BlattyIf a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
Tags: Idea, Simply ✍ Author: Elizabeth BowenI'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Tags: Book, Working ✍ Author: Louise BrownIf you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
Tags: Deal, Friends ✍ Author: Jeb BushA novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Tags: Average, Good ✍ Author: Lord ChesterfieldComics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
Tags: Move, Movie ✍ Author: Daniel ClowesA novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
Tags: Final, Might ✍ Author: Harlan CobenSome writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
Tags: Happen, Writers ✍ Author: Emma DonoghueA memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
Tags: Places, Situation ✍ Author: Emma DonoghueIf I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
Tags: Fiction, Time ✍ Author: Arne DuncanI've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
Tags: Books, Time ✍ Author: Helen FieldingThe Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
Tags: Island, Location ✍ Author: Elizabeth GeorgeThe theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
Tags: Explain, Theory ✍ Author: Lee GrantSomehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
Tags: Achieve, Else ✍ Author: Zac HansonThe novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
Tags: Forms, Ultimate ✍ Author: Zac HansonI couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
Tags: Characters, Few ✍ Author: Tom HarkinThe financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.
Tags: Financial, Whole ✍ Author: Robert HarrisIt was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.
Tags: Angry, Suppose ✍ Author: Richard HelmsI resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
Tags: Someone, Writer ✍ Author: Aleksandar HemonWriting a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
Tags: Story, Writing ✍ Author: Etgar KeretI wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
Tags: Combat, Vietnam ✍ Author: Tracy KidderWhat do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
Tags: Characters, Life ✍ Author: Joe KleinI don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
Tags: Lost, Time ✍ Author: Jerzy KosinskiI never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
Tags: Happen, Plan ✍ Author: Donna LeonThere are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
Tags: Laws, Nor ✍ Author: Doris LessingIn my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
Tags: Black, Love ✍ Author: Jonathan LethemThere is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
Tags: Ideas, Making ✍ Author: Heinrich MannA novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
Tags: Book, Questions ✍ Author: Hilary MantelI'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
Tags: Stop, Write ✍ Author: Hilary MantelWhen one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
Tags: Writing ✍ Author: Daphne du MaurierNewt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
Tags: Short, Story ✍ Author: Danny McBrideThe suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Tags: Happen, Hero ✍ Author: Mary McCarthyPublishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.
Tags: Career, Guess ✍ Author: Jay McInerneyMy first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
Tags: Life, Took ✍ Author: David O. McKayA screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
Tags: Building, Finished ✍ Author: Nicholas MeyerThe first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
Tags: Map, Put ✍ Author: Nicholas MeyerIn a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Tags: Character, Ego ✍ Author: Elizabeth MoonA good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
Tags: Good, Writing ✍ Author: William PenningtonIf I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
Tags: Why, Writing ✍ Author: Chaim PotokThe 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
Tags: Curiosity, Mainstream ✍ Author: Richard Powers