“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.” ThinkingMenWritingBookCharacterStoriesActionHateTurnsNovelAlivePagesUnderstoodHundredSkinsI HateTwentiesAgreeThirtyShedSnakesI Am Alive Author:Kenneth Patchen
“The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.” PeopleWantFeelsWritingKindNightHatePartyNovelFiveFourI HateGoing OutFabulousFunny ThingsHate PeopleSchizophrenicI Hate People Author:Bob Colacello
“I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.” FeelsWritingTryingIdeasHandsDesireHateTurnsStrongNovelWrittenOne ThingPureI HateSillyGuiltyMotiveBeing SillyStrong Desire Author:Kelly Link
“I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.” StoriesHateNovelTeacherWrittenStudentsInspireI HateNuts Author:Richard Matheson
“I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel. I'm kind of boring.” PeopleKindHomeHateReadingStarsNovelBedI HateDancingClubsBoringStayingGoing OutSteelDancing With The Stars Author:Britney Spears
“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.” HeartLittlesSelfCountrySeemsHateLiteratureChurchResultsNovelObjectsStrangeRegardClimateDebateGenerosityLatterBroadsMeaninglessDislikeFascinatedAmbitiousSuspicionIgnoredStrokesTextureMatthewBakersAmerican LiteratureLatter DaysFingernailsNicholsonDissectionDeacons Author:Stephen King
“I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read the book." Right? At least with non-fiction, you can kind of convey some information, and people can decide for themselves whether they want more of that kind of information. But with a novel, what am I going to do?” PeopleIfsWantKindBookHateFictionNovelInformationNon FictionFiction Writers Author:Jonathan Franzen
“I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?” PeopleGivingWritingHateStarsNovelDecidedTroll Author:Anna Quindlen
“I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.” HateNovelTraditionTraditional Author:Rick Moody
“I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.” KnowsWritingHateNovelI HateBritish Author:Jeff Noon
“I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.” ThinkingWorldShouldWritingCharacterHateSidesTermVisionNovelMysteryI HateAverageGlassesDrivenBarriersCarriePuzzlesAnother World Author:Patricia Cornwell