“From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.” FeelsFirstsWellsMayStillsMomentsFeelingsChanceNovelProveDisappearEndlessSatisfiedTortureJust OneChaptersDissatisfaction Author:Emile Zola
“In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.” WritingTryingDoeHappensNovelModernElementsDisappearGet AwaySelflessnessModern Novel Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.” ThinkingWorldNeedsBelieveHumansTwoStoriesMightI BelieveTermAnswersNovelWrittenEssentialsAbsolutesStrangerDisappearIntimacyPlaces In The WorldHuman Needs Author:Jonathan Lethem
“If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.” IfsWholeBigsSeemsFilmRealizingRoomsMillionsNovelCuttingMinutesDyingDisappearEpicEditingClimax Author:Pirjo Honkasalo