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Last updated on October 6, 2024.
I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.
A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword.
When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.
The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.
I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.
'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.
I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about.
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.
I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.