#nov

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#begin #book #during #emerge #even

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#craft #folly #mind #novel #screen

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines. ↗

— Judith Krantz

#book #exposed #fantasy #happened #heaven

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#buys #filmmaker #freedom #himself #novelist

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#does #fact #finds #none #normal

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#i #learned #long #novices #only

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#anonymous #dark #every #every night #feel

Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#inspirational #politics #technology #age

Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever. ↗

— Melodie Ramone

#love #novel-quotes #friendship

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible