Novelists Quotes - Page 34

• The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.

  Corey Feldman

  Real, Hero, Kids

  "Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander Interview LOST BOYS: THE THIRST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2010.

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• Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. Because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. It's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Running, Lying, Self

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

  Gore Vidal

  Italian, Paris, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Real, Way, Life Is

  "Writers on Writing, Carl Hiaasen: Real Life, That Bizarre and Brazen Plagiarist" by Carl Hiaasen, archive.nytimes.com. April 24, 2000.

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• For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Issues, Important

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May, 2009.

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• I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Ideas, Together

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

  Stephen King

  Saws

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Jobs, Want, Accomplished

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.

  Lee Gutkind

  Passion, Views, Two

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Character, Mean, People

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• To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

  Jillian Medoff

  Philosophy, Memorable, Political

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.

  Mike Leigh

  Mean, Artist, Journey

  "Big Think Interview With Mike Leigh". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

  Tom Perrotta

  Lessons

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

  Scott Spencer

  House, Trying, Underwear

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• I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

  Philip Levine

  Temperament

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• I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

  Richard Powers

  Technology, Thinking, Tasks

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• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  Kate Atkinson

  What If, Bigs, Big Things

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• I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Want, Serious

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• All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Imagination, Journalism

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• So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Lasts, Firsts

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

  Robert Stone

  Trying, Way, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

  Ian Mcewan

  Strong, Things In Life, Different

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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