“The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.” PoorAudienceActivityUglyHeavyNovelistsEngagedPensTribesHeartedCirculationRosyComplexionHeavy Hearted Author:Jane Gardam
“A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.” PeopleWritingMayReadingNovelAudienceFiveHundredResponseNovelistsSolitaryThrilling Author:August Wilson
“What the podcast novelists do isnt 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.” BookDifferentSelfGoalAudienceNovelistsPublishersFormat Author:Jeremy Robinson
“Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing” WritingLittlesJoyProcessEnjoyTalkingTechnologyNovelAudienceCuttingEdgesEnjoyedNovelistsScreenplaysInventingCutting Edge Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.” IfsMenWritingWellsFeelingsProblemWould BeAgeTodayWishNaturalReligiousAudienceReaderNovelistsEncountersSentimentalSentimentalityCredibleInsurmountable Author:Flannery O'Connor