#novel

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #awake #because #change #continue

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #country #feel #i #i am

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#did #first #fond #i #kind

Wanita cerdas bisa menghadapi cecunguk mana pun dengan anggun. ↗

— Francisca Todi

#relationship #romance #romance-novels #romantic-comedy #romantic

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#based #black #boy #called #catcher

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill. ↗

— George Plimpton

#hill #interviewed #novelist #young

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#because #big #epic #future #going

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead