#novels

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. ↗

— John O'Hara

#greater #make #men #men and women #novels

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#faulkner #hemingway #high #high school #i

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#fiction #novels #writing #art

it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all. ↗

— Henry Gratton Doyle

#don-quixote #great-novels-in-translation #the-art-of-translation #translation #translations

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#beauty

Oh, but it's so much fun to watch a man beg for a change. And I'm afraid if you really want to work here, you're going to have to do some serious begging. ↗

— Sydnie RileyWoman On Top Studs

#romantic-comedy #sherry-james #change

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street. ↗

— Martin Amis

#novels #writing #business