#novel

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#bass #bass player #ended #even #games

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#genre #like #literary #many #much

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#because #effect #essayist #essays #failed

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#itself #like #moves #novel #time

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#novelist #write #writer #experience

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#detective story #did #first #i #my own

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#longer #novel #often #process #self-doubt

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#atmosphere #cameo #contents #image #memory

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? ↗

— Arthur Smith

#creating #fiction #hours #how #hundreds