#novel

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#hundred #movie #novel #write #you

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#art #art forms #because #digested #each

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#financial #give #give me #i #me

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States. ↗

— Terry Southern

#attention #believe #came #first #got

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#came #consider #i #just #myself

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#asking #asking questions #authors #done #excel

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#church #go #i #i do #novels

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cat #exceptionally #good #live #long

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bad #bad guys #characters #community #everybody