Quotes by Novel I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. Jean Rhys novel shapes I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' Jeff Bezos skeptical novel Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. Jennifer Echols novel reading people If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? Jennifer Weiner novel stories writing Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips. Jerry Spinelli rejection four novel The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel. Jill Barnett novelists novel writing I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up. Jhumpa Lahiri dredging novel stories I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. Jim Harrison novel used criticism I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about. Joan Juliet Buck next pages novel Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. Jo Nesbo teens novel writing Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel. Joan Didion novel answers writing Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. Joan Didion texture painting novel What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like. Joe Klein novel character There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. John Braine novel writing way The novel is resilient, and so are novelists. John Banville resilient novelists novel A novel is a performance you have to plan. John Darnielle plans novel performances I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something. John Darnielle novel real people He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences. John Irving novel coincidence young When I feel like being a director, I write a novel. John Irving novel writing directors My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel... John Hurt scripts novel taken «678910111213141516»
