“The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.” ImportantCharacterForgetEmotionNovelIntelligentMedicineNever ForgetEntertainingCentre Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.” WritingImportantMatterCharacterMovingFallPassionForgetNovelMysteryTreeEmotionalGoes OnTenFalling In LoveInsightListsPsychologicalLyrical Author:Jonis Agee
“Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before that, or we should all be plumbers. It must be good to be a plumber. Everyone is happy to see you, and no one reviews your work.” ShouldWritingLastsForgetNovelBe GoodReviewsPlumberHappy To See You Author:Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
“[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.” ThinkingKnowsForgetFictionNovelEconomyPiecesPropertyBrilliantObservationCraftsNever ForgetCrucialForget ItIlluminating Author:Ali Smith
“A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.” BookDreamDesireWishForgetNovelImpossibleMadnessRemainsMonkeysDisturbingPawsImpossible To Forget Author:Neil Gaiman
“You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.” IfsWritingLooksAbleLastsHouseForgetNovelSouthWinterLast TimeChildbirthDakotaSouth DakotaRemodeling Book:Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch Source: Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
“Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe. This novel rocks . . . In Girlchild Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park. When you finish this novel, your sorrow at turning the last page will be eased by your excitement at what this sassy, talented author will do next.” CharacterLastsNextVoiceForgetNovelRocksSorrowPagesOriginalsNarrativeDawnExcitementParksAweNever ForgetCompellingSassyProtagonistsHendrixEndearingHoldenCentral ParkHolden CaulfieldPrecocious Author:Mameve Medwed
“I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.” FeelsWritingSometimesWould BeCoursesLanguageUnderstandingGoalForgetNovelReaderMediumsNovelistsTransparent Author:Paul Auster
“When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.” NeedsFeelsWritingLongBookDoneWholeMightOrderForgetNovelProjectsLong TimeQuestioning Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentEndsReadingForceFeltForgetFictionNovelEffectsNew YorkEmotionalFlowerHairSceneShotsDoctorsTrainPatientGoodbyeNever ForgetUnfortunateCowboySaying GoodbyeDinosaursCanyonsCumulativeDifferent ExperiencesChekhovHawthorne Author:Adam Ross