#nov

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#far #fates #guys #higher #higher level

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#curve #dreamed #ever #every #every time

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#break #down #else #i #mostly

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#brain #excited #get #i #novel

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. ↗

— Dee Hock

#how #innovative #into #mind #never

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#book #hopefully #i #itself #never

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#different #film #films #i #internal

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#called #could #end #fear #fight

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#concern #innovations #itself #limited #modern