I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
All of my novels are democracies.
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle.
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.
If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
Try writing. . . a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel. " Novel-schmovel.
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but-no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.