“The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.” MayStoriesMoralNovelApproachShort StoryAesthetic Author:Edith Wharton
“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.” PeoplePersonsDoeStillsTwoFormReadingUnderstandingCommunityCommonNovelApproachRoundsAcquireAssociationLife TimeCommon Experience Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.” IfsWayWellsPersonsMightReadingFictionNovelMiddleCenturyReaderApproachVolumeToiletsTwentieth CenturyNourishmentBetter PersonFrivolousDiversionBest PlaceDubiousDichotomyOffendingBroccoli Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.” ThinkingWritingTryingDifferentHardDoneStoriesNovelFiguresTerribleApproachHarderGet It DoneDifferent Approach Author:Donald Miller
“For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the novel to refer to. It's always really helpful to have all of that information and all of those hundreds more words which give you an idea into the background and your character and all.” WayGivingIdeasDifferentCharacterFilmUnderstandingNovelInformationParticularApproachBackgroundsDifferent WaysHelpfulUnderstanding Him Author:Asa Butterfield
“Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my background. Cindy Kelley, who has been my writing partner on my novels, she works more on the prose side and the description side of the storytelling because, obviously, there's a lot more of that in a novel than in a screenplay. You only have up to 120 pages in a screenplay.” WritingFirstsWellsKindHas BeensSidesNovelApproachPagesPartnersBackgroundsStorytellingProseDescriptionScreenplaysCindy Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.” IfsWorldDoeIdeasDifferentProcessNovelApproachWorking ItProfessorsClassroomAngleBankingSubjectiveSubjectivityWorkshopsDifferent Angles Author:Tod Goldberg