Novel Quotes - Page 16

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

I don't get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me - I'm a novelist.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.

All gods are better than their reputation.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.