#novel

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#favorite #fourth #i #ii #middle

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#end #invent #most #novel #part

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#english #except #happiness #love #novel

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#comes #devil #god #hero #indifferent

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#autobiographical #confession #diary #even #film

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#cause #change #changes #communities #england

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. ↗

— Kanye West

#just be #novels #people #self-absorbed #sometimes

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#constant #days #flexible #hours #i

When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage. And so I did. Sophie Lenon ↗

— Krystal McLean

#broken-heart #dark #hope #lovers #romance