#novel

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#broader #countries #european #european countries #expression

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #myself #novels #really #screenplays

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk. ↗

— John Tesh

#because #buy #good #great #next

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad. ↗

— Irving Thalberg

#fad #just #novelty #pictures #talking

I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award. ↗

— Seth Graham-Smith

#big #book #going #guy #i

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#book #everyone #going #novel #poems

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#clamor #later #namely #novelty #public

make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#life #novelty #security #beauty

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