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Tag Name "Novel" (2393)

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Novels with a thesis don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to show something, that want to argue something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything.
Sergio Chejfec
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
Zadie Smith
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Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.
Zadie Smith
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Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.
Julian Barnes
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Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
Joe Klein
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Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds few of their heroines are happily disposed of.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Virginia Woolf
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
Philip Larkin
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Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.
Joan Didion
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
Doris Lessing
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Novels are make-believe and play for adults.
Mohsin Hamid
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Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
Rebecca Miller
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Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.
Colum McCann
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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.
Cory Doctorow
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Novels ought to have hope at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.
Anne Lamott
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Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.
Nicholas Sparks
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Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.
A. S. Byatt
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Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon.
Tao Lin
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Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.
Alan Lightman
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Novels allow me to create a whole world.
Ntozake Shange
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
Joyce Carol Oates
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