Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.
The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.
An old novel has a history of its own.
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.
All novels are experimental.
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.
almost all novels are love stories.