#novel

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#does #effects #explain #features #founder

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S. ↗

— Andrew Gross

#book #i #i think #influence #king

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#brain #excited #get #i #novel

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#doing #easily #finish #i #i write

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. ↗

— John Green

#adult #am #body #bowled #called

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. ↗

— John Green

#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. ↗

— John Green

#chicago #city #favorite #first #i

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family