#novel

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#could #directly #emotions #english #express

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #i write #just #like #much

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #creative #disappointed #dynamic #every

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. ↗

— Walter Murch

#20th century #age #artistic #became #century

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel. ↗

— William Nicholson

#everyone #hero #novel

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. ↗

— Anais Nin

#book #cosmic #each #give #individual

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. ↗

— Edward Norton

#i #i do #just #lot #novelty

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#believe #crude #cut #days #early