“My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.” IdeasBigsInterestNovelConceptsBig IdeasDomestic LifeMinutiae Author:Scarlett Thomas
“I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.” WantNovelConceptsDesignerAestheticCommerceNovelty Author:Eva Zeisel
“The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.” MadeImportantDifferentPowerfulWatchesNovelModernCreationShapesConceptsExtraordinaryAncientTalesProseRemarkableCourageousShiftingNarrators Author:Aminatta Forna
“My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.” I CanStatesStoriesRealityPoliticalUniverseDealsNovelWrittenParticularDrugMajorsConceptsRadicalThemeTrendsFascismSociologyPreoccupationPsychoticMultiverse Author:Philip K. Dick
“Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.” MeanTermNovelConceptsMarketingFatsShelvesGraphicBookstoresGraphic Novels Author:Jim Steranko
“If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel. With record-making in the singer-songwriter world or whatever it is that I do, it's a little different because there is no specific arc that is necessarily, like it's not a concept record.” IfsWorldLittlesDifferentRunningNovelRecordsConceptsSingersNovelistsThemeSongwritersSinger SongwritersArcs Author:Amos Lee
“Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.” KindSchoolPleasureSecretNovelRocksPeriodsConceptsIntelligentInstrumentsAlbumsBoxesMathematicalSuspectsSheerLitAccuracyOxfordMicrophonesTinGood NatureLikeableSchool Days Author:Peter Bradshaw
“In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after this destruction, with all the stuff that we're dealing with now - a dirty war, the disappeared, the concept of terrorism. Anyway, 9/11 happened some years into the process, and I was like, OK, I don't have a novel.” WritingYearsWarStatesStuffProcessUnitedUnited StatesNovelHappenedConceptsDestructionTwentiesTerrorismTerroristEnormousDestroyedDirty Author:Junot Diaz
“I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.” StillsWholeNovelGrewGrew UpConceptsLocalsCaliforniaSouthernSouthern California Author:John Darnielle
“Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.” FunNovelStrangeActivityConceptsUnusualHabitualMilkshakes Author:Ian Bogost