#novel

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#around #dissatisfied #doom #gave #i

Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you? ↗

— Tom Xavier

#future #kidlit #novel #serendipity #ya

نحن نرفض النظر إلى الحياة بوصفها مغامرة كبرى لا حدود لها ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #novel #life

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

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