#novel

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#build #enjoy #i #just #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 cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. ↗

— Philip Roth

#assure #cannot #discretion #easier #i

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#ending #i #i see #novel #open

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#closure #ending #i #novels #real

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#faint #first #get #here #human

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#had #i #inside #me #novel

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. ↗

— Rand Paul

#i #novels #rand #read

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

I don't very often read novels. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#novels #often #read #very