#novel

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #embarrassed #i #novels #religion

I've never abandoned the novel. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #never #novel

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#child #did #fulltime #i #novels

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#doodle #form #harder #i #lot

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. ↗

— John Irving

#dark #going #gray #how #i

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#dream #entertain #fiction #form #ideas

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#any #code #going #learn #like

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#awhile #because #craft #different #different kind

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#film #had #i #ireland #just

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#challenge #each #enjoy #greatest #harder