Novel Quotes - Page 4

• When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.

  Daniel Handler

  Religious, Eight, Wings

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 21, 2017.

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• Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.

  John Hurt

  Imagination, Interesting, Important

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all, and then I got to love Waugh. And I think that maybe "Cosmopolitans" has a bit of an Evelyn Waugh vibe to it at some point.

  Whit Stillman

  Depressing, Fall, Thinking

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

  Ann Patchett

  Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.

  Chris Cleave

  Teacher, Children, War

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moving, Dwarves, Cities

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Facts

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sound, Shirts, Good Things

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

  Liza Campbell

  Writing, Years, Three

  Source: newwest.net

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• I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!

  Liza Campbell

  Girl, Growing Up, Father

  Source: newwest.net

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• I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

  Jesse Ball

  Writing, Different, Purpose

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

  Chris Cleave

  War, Distance, Thinking

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

  Alice Mattison

  Eye, Thinking, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Hate, Writing

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

  Jason Diamond

  Two, Looks, Taught

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Hate, Reading

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.

  Wally Lamb

  Moving, Trying, Sticks

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• I won't read novels while writing novels.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

  John Wesley Harding

  Taken, Emotional, Care

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Mean, Russia

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand (and really most of his books); Anne Rice/The Witching Hour; and Pat Conroy/The Prince of Tides. These authors write my favorite kind of book - epic feel, gorgeous prose, unique characters, and a pace that keeps you turning the pages. From them, I learned a lot about characterization, pacing, prose, voice, and originality.

  Megan Chance

  Kings, Book, Character

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.

  Megan Chance

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Hate, Orange, Plot

  Source: www.salon.com

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