#novel

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#art #art form #atlas #ayn #ayn rand

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

#art #better #better actor #come #end

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright. ↗

— Beth Henley

#here #maintain #novelist #playwright #poet

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#brain #excited #get #i #novel

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#fairy #fairy tales #followed #i #novels

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#i #in print #keep #me #novels

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#came #closing #costs #gap #getting

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crafted #hear #i #immediacy #lot

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#novel #rules #three #unfortunately #writing