#novel

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#i #novels #rejected #romance #submitted

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#change #few #few people #happy #i

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life. ↗

— Bubba Sparxxx

#around #because #everyone #first #first time

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#chooses #concerns #cultural #deal #given

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#cave #fire #great #great american #into

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