#novel

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#had #i #later #novelist #thought

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. ↗

— Emma Watson

#i #learn #mandolin #novel #play

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#collaborate #different #jokes #nicely #novels

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#being #day #female #get #hard

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc. ↗

— Edmund White

#betrays #book #boy #case #creepy

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. ↗

— Patrick White

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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? ↗

— Rebecca West

#composing #each #i #i wonder #just

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. ↗

— Fred Allen

#dollars #easily #few #i #novel

Because...” he used to cradle his daughter in his arms every morning and often they would exchange soft nuances “...if you can dream it, if you can see it in your visions at night, if you can feel it in your soul, it’s yours! And it never really belonged to anyone else, in the first place! It was always yours!” Viera returned her scroll to the drawer and closed it, she kissed the compass around her neck and climbed into her bed under the warm quilts, the candle flame crackled and the memories of her father’s arms around her embraced her there in bed and his deep, hoarse voice resounded in her ears; “... and if you chance upon a treasure that is yours and it happens to be in the possession of someone else, it’s not very wrong to take what is yours, to take what you dreamed, what you saw in your visions at night, what you felt visit you in your spirit! Sure, it’s not lawful, but aye aye my little one, listen to me when I tell you that the best things in life are not under the laws of any sort! For which law created love? Which law created courage? The best things, the real things, are the things that are not measured by any man’s laws! Fear is the only thing that any law has ever created! And what kind of pirates would we all be if we were afraid of any of our fears, even a little! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fears #freedom #inspirational-quotes #legendary-pirates #pirates

A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt. ↗

— Leon Uris

#inspirational #novel #writing #courage