“You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.” KnowsWritingI CanNovelImagineWriting Poetry Author:Vikram Seth
“My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.” WorldCharacterStoriesNovelImagineHappenedGoes OnMy FavoriteReally Great Author:J.H. Wyman
“Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?” PeopleIfsWantGivingMeanDoeI CanBookPlayImaginationAnswersNovelImagineStageComicComic BookShakespeare Play Author:Stan Lee
“People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMayTwoBookCharacterTermNovelImagineSeeingReadyInventionIntimate Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.” IfsThinkingWellsHeartMeanFormNovelImagineCurrentsMedicalInventionNarrativeThriveAnimationSkepticalRipeTextbooksReinvention Author:Jeff Bezos
“It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.” IfsWritingTryingI CanBookReadingFictionNovelImagineTricksGarbage Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.” HumansI CanReadingPowerfulNovelImagineCrimeBrotherSizePunishmentSheerGrandeurPredicamentsCrime And PunishmentBrothers Karamazov Author:Gordon T. Smith
“Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.” WorldYearsPersonsBookCharacterNovelImagineWrittenSixtySingle Person Author:Adam Johnson
“It [going from mini-series to series] was never even discussed because it [The Starter Wife] was, you know, an adaptation of a novel. And we - the mini-series encompassed the whole novel. And so it was always going to be a finite sort of event. And then I imagine when people started to really respond to the show and then we got ten Emmy nominations, USA sort of said, "Oh, I think maybe we have something here."” PeopleThinkingKnowsSaidWholeShowsNovelImagineEventsTenSeriesUsaFiniteAdaptationNominationsEmmys Author:Debra Messing
“I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.” PeopleMenWayWritingLongCoursesLiteratureNovelImagineCapacityVicesMagazinesComicCavesVice VersaComic StripsAtrophyPictorialNeanderthals Author:William Faulkner
“When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."” WarNovelGoneImagineResearchHistoricalCivil WarAccurateImagine ThatEntitledBiographiesSuppositionHistorical Novels Author:Nicholas Meyer
“I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you cannot imagine a whole novel before you write it; there are limits to human memory and imagination. Lots of things come to your mind as you write a book, but again, I make a plan, chapter, know the plot.” KnowsWritingMindHumansBookWholeCoursesImaginationMemoriesNovelImaginePlansLimitsPlotChapters Author:Orhan Pamuk
“My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."” IfsWorldNovelImagineMy FavoriteMonstersProvoking Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room” IfsMenWayWantShouldI CanMomentsYoungCertainRoomsWonderNovelImagineLimitsShadowGainsLonelyUnionsWorkersYoung ManRevelationsHotelRopeAppearingFlatteringAlleysHotel RoomsImmediacyLonely Women Author:James Vance
“You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.” WantWritingPersonsStoriesChoicesNovelImagineEarsTricksWhisperingVisualizationChoices You MakeWord Choice Author:Julianna Baggott
“I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.” BelieveI BelieveSecretNovelImagineNotion Author:Steve Erickson