Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable. . . and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue. . . don't miss it.
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.
I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Let nothing novel be introduced!
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.
I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened. . . when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.