#novel

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#art form #both #commodity #different #first

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#because #bellow #his #knows #me

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#atlantic #contact #get #great #i

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#books #i #into #keeping #novels

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#beginning #continue #end #novel #other

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#compassion #cow #detail #examination #experience

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. ↗

— William Golding

#carpentry #daily #job #level #much

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#come #him #i #like #mccarthy

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. ↗

— Julia Child

#came #country #dying #go #going

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. ↗

— Lee Child

#another #answer #become #book #desperation