Quotes by Novel A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. E. M. Forster novel writing giving In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. E. O. Wilson novel southern writing I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. E. M. Forster novel england long People respect nonfiction but they read novels. E. O. Wilson nonfiction novel people I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels. Eden Robinson sense-of-humor novel History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Edmond de Goncourt could-have-been has-beens novel We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we? Edith Wharton novel life people The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. Edward St Aubyn novel impossible feels The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink. Edward Abbey kitchen novel add For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. Eileen Favorite bookworms novel mother the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon Elizabeth Bowen reading-novels novel reading Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. Elizabeth Hardwick novel Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. Elizabeth Bowen crafts novel art In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. Elizabeth Bowen novel real-life real The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience. Elizabeth Bowen novel doe add You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you. Elizabeth Gilbert leaving novel dna the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. Ellen Glasgow great-novels novel years For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination. Ellen Glasgow novel imagination With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so that you can finish one a day, at least in the first draft. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me. Elliott Colla program novel thinking A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short. Ellen Glasgow novel too-short long «1234567891011»