“My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.” WayYearsMindHeartCharacterBigsAgeYoungNovelIssuesMy FavoriteWideMake SenseRangeBroadsTacklingYoung MindsMockingbirdKill A Mockingbird Author:Ridley Pearson
“I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.” ReadingNovelWideRangeBiographiesThrillersLove Of Reading Author:Bruno Tonioli
“But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the nineteenth century, another characteristic which may be traced to the writer's sex. In Middlemarch and in Jane Eyre we are conscious not merely of the writer's character, as we are conscious of the character of Charles Dickens, but we are conscious of a woman's presence of someone resenting the treatment of her sex and pleading for its rights.” MayCharacterSexNovelRightsCenturyConsciousRangeCharacteristicsTreatmentAffectedJaneNineteenth CenturyDickensPleadingMiddlemarch Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.” WayBookRunningTodayLanguageLevelsClassNovelModernCenturyCrimeAdvantageBottomRangeNovelistsBarriersDeniedConfined19th CenturyPredecessorsBreachHorizontal Book:Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns Source: Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns
“Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.” ThinkingWritingChildrenRoomsSituationNovelTaughtRangeThriveRemarkableParenthoodPuzzling Author:Emma Donoghue
“I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingMeanStillsStoriesLastsReadingNovelReaderHonestlyRangeCaliforniaConfusedPlotReviewsShort StoryLast DayGoodreadsPoint BreakWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Mary J. Miller
“Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.” SometimesWholeDifferencesRolesNovelExampleGravesRangeTomsBiographiesCradleRobinson Crusoe Author:William Golding