Novel Quotes - Page 5

• [ 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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• A novel is a performance you have to plan.

  John Darnielle

  Plans, Performances

  Source: www.motherjones.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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• A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

  Mordecai Richler

  Couple, Writing, Years

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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'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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• From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind of gotten past that point where I felt bad for never having written a novel, even to where I felt really good about it, like I was a real purist.

  George Saunders

  Real, Writing, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Writing, Self, Firsts

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.

  Zadie Smith

  Simple, Tv Shows, Political

  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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• 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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