#novel

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#decade #each #i #long #novels

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

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

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you. ↗

— Atul Purohit

#life #love #novel #dreams

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#away #brain #especially #film #fun

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

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#science-fiction #science