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Novelists Quotes

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa Picture Quote #1

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary Picture Quote #1

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something Picture Quote #1

What the podcast novelists do isn’t all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher Picture Quote #1

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period Picture Quote #1

Novelists don’t age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties Picture Quote #1

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I don’t believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I’ve ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it Picture Quote #1

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination Picture Quote #1

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached Picture Quote #1

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - ‘unhappy is the family that contains an author’? Picture Quote #1

There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That’s a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few Picture Quote #1

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because ‘What if?’ is the big thing Picture Quote #1

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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960 Picture Quote #1

Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right Picture Quote #1

I don’t have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I’m a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire Picture Quote #1

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death Picture Quote #1

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad Picture Quote #1

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don’t feel that I’m working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I’m playing Picture Quote #1

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I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa Picture Quote #1

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do Picture Quote #1

I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science Picture Quote #1

I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read Picture Quote #1

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past Picture Quote #1

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi Picture Quote #1

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You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don’t know the human condition yet Picture Quote #1

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing Picture Quote #1

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary Picture Quote #1

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them ‘just right.’ But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it’s to get it written - so that you’ll have something to work with Picture Quote #1

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I’m an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists Picture Quote #1

I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams Picture Quote #1

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I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa (Novelists Quotes) We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary (Novelists Quotes) Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something (Novelists Quotes) What the podcast novelists do isn’t all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher (Novelists Quotes) There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period (Novelists Quotes) Novelists don’t age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. (Novelists Quotes) I don’t believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I’ve ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it. (Novelists Quotes) All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination. (Novelists Quotes) That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached. (Novelists Quotes) That’s the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - ‘unhappy is the family that contains an author’? (Novelists Quotes) There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That’s a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few. (Novelists Quotes) Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because ‘What if?’ is the big thing. (Novelists Quotes) I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960. (Novelists Quotes) Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right. (Novelists Quotes) I don’t have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I’m a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire. (Novelists Quotes) Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death. (Novelists Quotes) I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad. (Novelists Quotes) I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don’t feel that I’m working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I’m playing. (Novelists Quotes) I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. (Novelists Quotes) Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do. (Novelists Quotes) I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. (Novelists Quotes) I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read. (Novelists Quotes) Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past (Novelists Quotes) Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi. (Novelists Quotes) You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don’t know the human condition yet. (Novelists Quotes) It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing (Novelists Quotes) We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. (Novelists Quotes) Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them ‘just right.’ But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it’s to get it written - so that you’ll have something to work with. (Novelists Quotes) I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I’m an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. (Novelists Quotes) I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. (Novelists Quotes)

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