Novel Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• [ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.

  Whit Stillman

  Years, People, Projects

  Source: newrepublic.com

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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 try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the paper, you make a couple of phone calls, and then you sit on the couch and start. I use felt pen and white notepaper.

  Carolyn See

  Morning, Couple, Writing

  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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• As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

  Robin Furth

  Book, Born, Process

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.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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• Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Reading, Giving, Would Be

  Source: epaper.bostonglobe.com

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• I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

  Richard Dawkins

  Entertainment, Edification, Said

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Needs, Want

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

  Zadie Smith

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

  Zadie Smith

  Ideas, Genius, Individual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

  Zadie Smith

  Pain, Problem

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• Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

  Peter James

  Ideas, Theme, Bigs

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have a plot - I say "obviously," although I think a lot of fiction doesn't, and nothing seems to happen. But to me, there should be something that happens, and it should be at least vaguely plausible. And because the readers are going to be with these characters for a long time, you have to get to know them and like them and want to know what happens to them.

  Dave Barry

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

  Elie Wiesel

  Holocaust, Opera, Soap

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as novel western ideas but as ones indigenous to Pakistan, as a part of its very creation.

  Steve Inskeep

  Ideas, Tolerance, Democracy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Media, Way

  Source: www.ign.com

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• At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.

  David Duchovny

  Senior, Writing, Virginia

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

  David Duchovny

  Reading, Writing, Jail

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

  David Duchovny

  Book, Writing, Biographies

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Love Is, Thinking, Romance

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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