Quotes having the keyword Novel
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
by Joan D. Vinge (Author, American , born in 1948) keywords: being, escaped, fragment, goddess, had, head, here, myth, novel, perfect, somehow, sort, springboard, through, turned, wanted , write I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
by Joan D. Vinge (Author, American , born in 1948) keywords: after, characters, decided, female, first, had, lot, next, novel, story, strong, thinking, wanted , write Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
by Kurt Vonnegut (Author, American , born in 1922) keywords: any, armor, attacked, expresses, full, hot, loathing, novel, person, preposterous, put, rage, reviewer , she I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.
by Julie Walters (Actor, British , born in 1950) keywords: actresses, because, disappears, go, know, lost, man, new, novel, picked, reality, touch, two, up, writing , york Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
by Eudora Welty (Author, American , born in 1909) keywords: cause, discovering, effect, experience, happenings, life, novel, own, sequence, story, stumbling, upon, way, writer , writing My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.
by Donald E. Westlake (Writer, American , born in 1933) keywords: changed, constant, days, flexible, hours, lose, novel, output, over, schedule, seven, touch, try, week, within, work, world , years I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
by Edith Wharton (Author, American , born in 1862) keywords: adapted, author, being, enough, good, known, never, novel, political, spite , views In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
by Edmund White (Novelist, American , born in 1940) keywords: adult, betrays, book, boy, case, creepy, enjoyed, etc, even, everyone, experience, gay, his, man, needed, novel, only, really, received, sexual, such, teacher, think, though, too , whom Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
by Patrick White (Author, Australian , born in 1912) keywords: again, began, beginning, called, developed, earth, into, life, man, novel, painfully, sentence, then, tree, which , writing And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: appreciate, doing, each, example, new, novel, other, robert, something, stone, tell , writers I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: believe, best, closer, different, form, novel, novels, perhaps, poetry, seem, short, spirit, stories, story , than Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: another, cause, change, changes, communities, england, flourished, had, novel, observe, opportunity, over, perhaps, put, see, stay, these, time, why , would Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: cast, characters, complicated, immensely, novel, scandal, tolstoy, varied , watergate Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: detest, except, induces, make, money, nothing, novel, read, them , writing However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
by Frances Wright (Writer, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: advance, alike, appear, assertion, assign, assume, feeling, good, however, human, improvement, may, must, novel, place, sense, shall, society, them, until, venture, which , women Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
by Elizabeth Wurtzel (Writer, American , born in 1967) keywords: am, decided, eventually, had, just, myself, novel, publish, repeating, say, sure, thought, wanted, will , worried The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
by Ahmet Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1974) keywords: am, bill, came, captain, communicate, goods, novel, sentence, sold, them, then, thing, together, very, way, well , whole Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
by Florenz Ziegfeld (Producer, American , born in 1869) keywords: also, associates, favorable, feature, forthcoming, her, impression, lead, may, new, novel, only, production, register, she, some, something, suggest, unconsciously, will , work
