Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a...
Novels are what I know, and the novel door in my personality is always open.
A novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, tea...
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to writ...
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them.",...
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.
The great novels are deterrents. A Merck's manual on how not to live.
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them – I look upon good novels – as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowle...
I think after all I found a feature which is incredible and kind of mein or let's say it something which is part of my childhood in the Jack Ketchum Novels and films.
Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.
من المستحيل أن تحمي أطفالك من الإحباط أو خيبة الأمل التي سيصادفونها في حياتهم
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieti...
I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could translate over into reality, that I could make their world my worl...