#tin

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#magic

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#novel

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#on-writing #novel

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#film #films-based-on-novels #novels #readers #film

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#latin #language

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent. ↗

— Harper Lee

#writer

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#writer

Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#novel

I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in m bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness. ↗

— Christina Dodd

#historical #historical-romance #queen #queen-victoria #romance

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death #end #enough #far #keep