Novel Quotes - Page 11

• If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You have to really be in touch with your heart rather than your head to write the novel you want.

  Soman Chainani

  Writing, Heart, Easy

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never any thought of this thing going on and becoming a series. If there's any common thing between these characters, it's that they weren't anything I was seeing in comics. Almost everything I've done is something I wish somebody else was doing, because it's what I'd like to read.

  Mike Mignola

  Character, Wish, Together

  "Graphic Novel Friday: Interview with Mike Mignola (Part Two)". Interview With Alex Carr, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 5, 2013.

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• The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend themselves to the kind of ethical reflection that is open to us all. That said, once we have determined roles and their contours, those who act within them may have special duties and privileges that others may lack. Specific roles may generate ethical inquiries with novel forms, just as new technologies may push us in new directions.

  John Kleinig

  Reflection, Technology, Justice

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Reality, Short Story

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Falling into Donald Trump's trap, or being distracted every time he sends out a tweet is really not leadership. And, I would point you to a historical example, Italy's Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, a larger-than-life personality. People didn't know what to do until somebody came up with a novel idea: Why don't we ignore him? They completely ignored the personality, the man, and focused on the issues. He was defeated twice. Maybe we can learn from that lesson.

  Sam Rasoul

  Fall, Men, People

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• Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values, of progress, of civilization - because how could you possibly move forward if you break technology? I think that that misses the point, that if you introduce any kind of technology, what you're introducing is a new way of living and the consequences of that new way of living for people who were enmeshed in a different way of living need to be thought through.

  Sheila Jasanoff

  Moving, Thinking, Technology

  "Technological Innovation Doesn’t Have to Make Us Less HumanTechnological Innovation Doesn’t Have to Make Us Less Human". Interview With Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. September 4, 2016.

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• I feel like I veer more away from technology than toward it. I'm a little scared of the direction we're going, to be honest. It feels like a sci-fi novel from the '50s, the way we can control everything and the solitude we each have in our own little bubbles, and yet we feel like we have social interactions. We're moving in a weird direction, at least.

  Martin Starr

  Moving, Technology, Solitude

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

  Philip Roth

  Week

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religious point of view - because belief does not anger or embarrass me.

  Allegra Goodman

  Religious, Writing, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I do think some games are works of art, although their medium is visual rather than verbal. Both games and novels allow the reader/player to become a protagonist in the theater of the imagination. Both build worlds. In my opinion, the big difference between game and novel is in narrative structure. Communal role-playing games are open-plan without an end. A novel - at least the kind I write - has a closed structure with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I like that closed structure, and I feel I can say more with it.

  Allegra Goodman

  Art, Writing, Player

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality tales. In fact, you might find your religious framework here in dystopian, post-apocalyptic fiction. Here, and in videogames, you find strict codes of authority, the "rules of the game," the life-or-death quest and struggle that people crave.

  Allegra Goodman

  Religious, Struggle, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a game can teach. Whatever the genre, I think a successful narrative allows us to participate, to try on new roles and points of view. At their best, novels and games serve as vehicles for discovery.

  Allegra Goodman

  Successful, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my feelings directly because I cannot avoid the war. It's something in my soul, in my blood.

  Osama Alomar

  War, Writing, Soul

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus my attention with enough compassion and heart on those things, then other things will be revealed, and that's from the education that I've had from the novel.

  Ira Sachs

  Believe, Heart, Character

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If you have that spark that inspires other people, if you have a spark that gives resources to other people, that shares in really collaborative fashion, a spark of wit that kind of tells a story that gives people novel perspective of something, that's the kind of charisma that really leads to lasting power. It's not the kind of charisma that's seductive and self-aggrandizing. It's really a sort of a kind of social energy that really brings about the best in other people.

  Dacher Keltner

  Fashion, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier, because there's less money and fewer people involved. You just let a book of poems trickle out in the world, and it finds its own people. Novels are much harder, and you don't think you should have to do some of the things you're made to do.

  Nick Laird

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

  Robin Hobb

  Real, Nice, Be Kind

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Behind The Curtain of the Night is a life after death movie and it is based on a best-selling novel in the Czech Republic. It is a true story, and together with director Dalibor Stach, producers Milan Friedrich and Phil Goldfine, we were able to bring such a meaningful, important, and powerful story onto the big screen. We were so blessed that we got to shoot in the best historical locations throughout the entire Czech Republic from Prague to Karlovy Vary and many other important locations.

  Massimo Dobrovic

  Meaningful, Powerful, Blessed

  Source: dailydead.com

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• People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many more of these movies based on novels are there going to be?!'. People laugh at that question and they go novels, there are all different types of novels. But there are all different types of comic books, they just happen to have drawings on the cover!

  Kevin Feige

  Book, People, Diversity

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York working at a bank as a day job about seven years ago. I was writing novels at night and decided, "Wow, there's so much great TV, and they're telling the complex, interesting, psychologically nuanced stories that, as a novelist, you dream of telling. And it's a healthy, exciting, thriving medium - that's where I need to be."

  Nick Antosca

  Dream, Moving, Writing

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing I am shameful of or anything else in my novels. They are my children and I'm happy to speak about my children.

  Joseph Boyden

  Children, Writing, Speak

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe a novel that grapples with the horrors of World War II as anything but grueling. But Codex Orféo is somehow...well, I hope, riveting for readers. Deeply provocative. Cinematic in a nearly surreal sense.

  Michael Tobias

  War, Writing, Historical

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

  Patrick Stump

  Writing, Mean, Fit

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every major character who lives there. I'm not suggesting that one always has to go this far. But I truly believe what makes the setting for my novels come alive is that I've lived there first.

  Richard North Patterson

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions of me blathering over dinner with a glass of wine in my hand. I don't hold any illusion of those conversations being of particular value. The books, though, are - I hope - bigger than my opinions, investigations that go beyond my own intellect or wit.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Wine, Opinion

  Source: www.salon.com

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