“I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.” FormSufferingNovelMinesSurvivedRepresenting Author:Kenzaburo Oe
“Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.” SocialNovelExampleMinesAddressesNoirAffirmativeDysfunctionPathologyUpbeatSlice Of Life Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.” BookStoriesHappensNextNovelMinesOrdinaryConsequenceDetectives Author:Steig Larsson
“Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.” PeopleFormNovelComedyMinesIntelligentRateGraphicGraphic Novels Author:Stephen Fry
“When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.” WritingEndsDecisionNovelMinesFinalsWelcomeEditorsSuggestions Author:Louis Sachar
“If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.” IfsWorldFirstsHumansDoeFactsBigsCoursesReadingNovelHuman NatureMinesResolveDevotedVery HappyBig Questions Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine.” WorldMayFatherHeavenNovelMinesPhotographAlbumsGuidesSundayExposedUnfortunateEpicAngleScopeOur FatherSnapsHideousFather In HeavenGuide Me Author:Gunter Grass
“In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.” ThinkingTermNumbersFictionNovelEnvironmentExampleMinesRisingKimArcticComplementStanleyTobiasThinking About The Future Author:Annalee Newitz
“When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.” SaidBookTurnsNovelNew YorkMinesSellsCollectionsChaptersColleaguesPublishersNotableNew York Times Author:Julianna Baggott
“I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."” IfsWayWritingWellsSaidForceProcessAnswersNovelStudentsMinesPeriodsNovelistsJaneBookstoresQuestions And AnswersSmiley Author:Edward Hirsch