#novel

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. ↗

— Joan Didion

#novel #physical #physical strength #strength #sure

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one. ↗

— Diane Duane

#may #me #more #new #novel

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#britain #deal #exist #i #many

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#great #mentioned #mexican #mexico #novels

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#collect #existed #form #friends #graphic

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#felt #i #i always #inside #little

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#challenge #i #itself #mass #mass media

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #concentrating #effort #novels #prose

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#awards #battle #between #big #doomed

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#art form #deserve #form #i #i think