If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.
All gods are better than their reputation.
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.
All language is but a poor translation.
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.