#nov

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#favorite #fourth #i #ii #middle

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#every #fleets #folly #home #loaded

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. ↗

— John M. Ford

#am #different #establishment #evolution #i

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. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#anything #cannot #define #else #final

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#end #invent #most #novel #part

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#enjoyable #existential #novel #panic #process

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#me #novel #plan #research #takes

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#character #contemporary #difficult #i #i can

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #beings #drawn #fraction #human