#novel

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#embellish #invent #job #make #novelist

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#belt #consumer #conveyor #couple #days

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#experience #into #just #kind #novel

وجودك في حياتي يمثل لي كل أمل وحلم تمنيت تحقيقه ، ومهما يحدث لنا في المستقبل ، فسيكون كل يوم يمر علينا معًا هو أعظم يوم في حياتنا ، وسيكون قلبي دائمًا ملكًا لك ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #love-story #novel #life

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#engaging #enjoy #fact #go #i

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#dealing #double #eccentric #i #in the past

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#first #i #just #novels #onion

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

My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiting is terrible. Waiting to be older is worse than other kinds of waiting because there's nothing you can do to make it happen faster. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#science-fiction #science

الحب يعني أن تهتم بسعادة شخص آخر أكثر من اهتمامك بسعادتك أنت ، بغض النظر عن مدى الألم الذي سيسببه لك قرارك ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #novel #someone #love