Quotes by category:Novel

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

produce novel stories

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time. by Charles Stross

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

available novel writing

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

novel three firsts

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

Charlie Kaufman

backgrounds novel play

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial pe... by Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Cheryl Mendelson

cookbook self-love novel

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an... by Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Chet Williamson

second-chance novel easy

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be ab... by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

asks novel people

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. by China Mieville

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

novel writing way

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Chloe Grace Moretz

novel expectations firsts

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specifi... by Christina Baker Kline

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

Christina Baker Kline

audience novel writing

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

contemporary novel stuff

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.

critical things-to-do novel

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan. by Cory Monteith

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

nonfiction novel fans

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

Curtis Sittenfeld

really-deep novel people

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

novel process writing

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

novel kids book

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep inter... by Dana Spiotta

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

novel writing long

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

novel writing firsts

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishi... by Daniel Pennac

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

finishing novel

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.

novel ends life

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