Novel Quotes - Page 14

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

All novels are experimental.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.