“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.” KnowsFirstsStillsBookHappensDifficultBehindsNovelKnowingIndustrySceneOfficeFirst TimeLeapElitesPublishingOccasionalBehind The ScenesInsidersWorking Behind The Scenes Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.” PeopleThinkingWorldYoungLiteratureStuffBehindsFantasyNovelAdultsYoung AdultConsumersAvidFantasy Worlds Author:Diablo Cody
“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.” IfsWorldWayWritingTryingArtFactsStoriesEarthFormArtistOrderForceNaturalBehindsVisionNovelCreationObjectsPlanetsChaosDrivenImpulseAppropriateScreenplaysPlanet Earth Author:Robert Olen Butler
“Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.” StoriesBehindsNovelResearchDeeperMythologyDeserving Author:Michael Scott
“In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.” CharacterGodLiteratureBehindsNovelHeroFlamesNamelessGreat Novels Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.” SpiritBehindsNovelParticularCriticalStubbornnessCritical Spirit Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.” IfsWritingMindStoriesBehindsNovelFiveFourSceneCompetitionSurpriseAgentsAwardsMuseumsChaptersCeremonyOf My MindBehind The ScenesAward Ceremonies Author:Kate Atkinson
“Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.” PeopleWritingTryingDoeOrderFeltBehindsHalfNovelHeardMaterialsConversationTradeScreensSignificantDustArrangementsFragmentsPolishRubbishNovel WritingRaw MaterialsDiscardedScrapingDelving Author:Evelyn Waugh
“The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.” MenWorldYearsSeemsPassionStuffSecretBehindsNovelStreetsAgingRitualEstatesVengeanceMafiaCaricaturesPower Over OthersMulberry Author:Robert D. McFadden