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“If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.”

Ifs Chance Novel Dying Revive

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Years Two Ideas Different Helping Stuff Novel Dying Broken Walking Killing Two Years Why Not Going To Work Accelerate Walking Away

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“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.”

Ifs Whole Bigs Seems Film Realizing Rooms Millions Novel Cutting Minutes Dying Disappear Epic Editing Climax

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.”

Way Made Form Stuff Novel Dying

Author:William Monahan

“I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.”