“It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.” WayFilmOpportunityEasyAnimalNovelElegant Author:Chris Weitz
“With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.” KnowsEasyDifficultStepsNovelKeep GoingOne Step At A Time Author:Jane Smiley
“The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.” WritingHardEasyNovelStrangeStrange Things Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.” WantNeedsWritingYearsBelieveTwoImportantArtistI BelieveEasyNovelToo MuchHabitConcernedPressureExpectedTechniqueNovelistsTwo YearsRoutineNot InterestedImprovingAvoidingEasy To GetTime Of Need Author:Chinua Achebe
“I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.” KnowsWayStillsFoundEasyNovelKnowingImportanceUnitarian Author:L. P. Jacks
“Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.” YearsEasyNovelCriticsAwardsChileansBest NovelBonsai Author:Jonathan Messinger
“It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.” EasyNovelSteelMillsManuscripts Author:Golo Mann
“Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.” EasyChanceNovelPublishersSecond Chance Author:Chet Williamson
“I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.” WorldWritingWellsTwoBookWarCharacterCultureEasyKnownNovelWonderfulSixHappeningsEuropeSeriesBritishFinishedBrilliantWar Of The WorldsPeculiarEgyptEasternSecond World WarSlimEastern EuropeTrilogiesBalkansOliviaExpatriates Author:Sarah Waters
“It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required” PeoplePersonsIdeasEasyNovelEnlightenedEnlighteningFew Words Author:Anuj
“I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingImportantSometimesMatterJobsEasySoundSimpleNovelOne ThingGiving UpImportant ThingsKeep GoingDiscouragedDistractedEasy To Get Author:Sarah Dessen
“I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.” WritingMindLooksLongEndsStoriesGrowsEasyNovelMiddleStartingFireworks Author:Anton Chekhov
“Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than a grocery list might convince themself that they could also write a book. That being said, it's always a lot of work, as you know. And then there's this: you have no idea how many failed stories and novels I've attempted. I have files full of stories that didn't work for whatever reason.” KnowsWritingLooksPersonsSaidBookIdeasReasonStoriesMightEasyOpinionNovelWrittenListsNo IdeaConvinceNow And ThenFilesGroceriesGood WritingGrocery Lists Author:Mary J. Miller
“One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier.” ThinkingWorldFirstsImportantCharacterStoriesEasyMistakeNovelEasierPagesHundredShort Story Author:Yiyun Li
“Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they can see it all right there. It's like, "Here's what the movie looks like."” ThinkingWorldLooksBookEasyNovelOffersStudiosComicComic BookGraphicScreenwritersGraphic Novels Author:Ryan Reynolds
“You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.” WantLongIdeasStoriesEasyNovelProductsFinishedDrawingSatisfyingMarathonGraphicPlugsBurn OutGraphic Novels Author:Vera Brosgol