Novel Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care either. Which is why every time somebody cares enough to read a novel of mine, or respond to it - a reader, a reviewer, even my own editor - I'm a little bit amazed, and so hugely grateful.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Grateful, Writing, Editors

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

  Vivek Shraya

  Book, New Relationship, Style

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one for ages but just got tangled up in novels. The novel is the same in the sense that it is also a universe, but it explodes outwards with all that shrapnel going in several different directions. I don't see too much difference in the forms except for the fact that writing short stories is like sprinting rather than long-distance running.

  Colum McCann

  Short Love, Running, Distance

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The reason I did the name change is simple. I wrote a bunch of autobiographical material and I was really enjoying myself doing it, and in two of the songs I quote two different people (referring to me as Mr. Stace). And it just hit me at some point that it was ludicrous for me to think of myself as Wesley Stace, publish novels as Wesley Stace, be Wesley Stace and not have it released as Wesley Stace.

  John Wesley Harding

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.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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• In the earlier novels, Steve King tells us that John Farson, and perhaps even the Crimson King himself, are but other names and faces that belong to Walter O'Dim. However, in The Dark Tower, he tells us very clearly that Walter, John Farson, and the Crimson King are actually separate individuals.

  Robin Furth

  Kings, Dark, Names

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror films and was acutely aware of the political and social implications of Ralph Ellison's description of invisibility as it relates to black people, as opposed to the kind of retinal invisibility that H.G. Wells described in his novel Invisible Man.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Men, People, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my all-time favorite book about the war is the novel, "The Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara.

  Dave Barry

  War, Team, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Reading, Writing

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". Interview with Peter Sagal, wvasfm.org. January 21, 2017.

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• 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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• A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.

  William Gibson

  Growing Up, Culture, Aberration

  Source: craphound.com

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• Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reading, Different, Kind

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

  Khushwant Singh

  Mind, Pakistan, Firsts

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels.

  Murray Bookchin

  People, Enough, Admire

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• I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the world, although that's so crazy. That's just delusional. But I recognize that it's crazy. It will be a little dinky change.

  Carolyn See

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story.

  Robin Furth

  Kings, Jobs, Issues

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

  Robin Furth

  Dark, Order, Towers

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road Home and Treachery), is that while Gunslinger Bornwas a translation of an existing novel, the next two arcs are really the stories that I've been weaving since I first started working with Steve King on the Dark Tower back in 2000/2001.

  Robin Furth

  Kings, Home, Dark

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write a novel and I'm teaching myself. For that reason, I've been reading a lot of YA [young adults], which I never have before. It's totally new to me.

  Morgan Parker

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's how I discovered Thomas Bernhard, an Austrian novelist whose novels tend to be one long rant.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Long, Novelists, Sometimes

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to fight every day to make this not a novel; make it too short to be a novel." And then with that principle in place, the book sort of starts to say, "Okay, but I really need this. I really need some historical nuggets." And you're like, "All right, but keep it under control."

  George Saunders

  Fun, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a certain number of those sub-people come alive or get reenergized for some finite time.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.

  Zadie Smith

  Form, Smarter, One Thing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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