#nov

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#begins #ends #imitation #innovation

Innovation is creativity with a job to do. ↗

— John Emmerling

#innovation #job

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life. ↗

— John Irving

#any #beginning #i #interesting #last

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#images #into #never #novel #philosophy

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#discovery #first #i #idea #like

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#enemy #habitual #innovation #mindless

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality

Writing novels is the most exciting. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#most #novels #writing

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#every #generates #get #going #novel