#novel

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#english #especially #novel #personal #requires

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#masters #novelists #novels #say #spy

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#historian #novelist #unsuccessful

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. ↗

— James Merrill

#couple #i #novel #plays #trying

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#building #built #finished #finished product #likely

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels. ↗

— John Mica

#i #many #novels #read #sometimes

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world. ↗

— George Michael

#i #most #novelty #parts #world

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world. ↗

— David Miliband

#biggest #china #chinese #country #first

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#does #interesting #literature #made #makes

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#costs #disparity #exactly #film #his way