“A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.” BookRealForceNovelMysteryWindPlotMystery Novels Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.” WorldShouldBookRealFactsFictionNovelAuthorityReal WorldJudged Author:Akhil Sharma
“I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar to writing a first-person novel. But I was writing about real people, not fictional ones - myself, my family, my friends and boyfriends and ex-husband, and that was extremely tricky.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsPersonsRealVoiceNovelHusbandMy FriendsMy FamilyExesTrickyFirst PersonEx Husband Author:Kate Christensen
“I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points in some real tangible sense, and that I had to make this a self-contained novel, in case I'm run over by a bus tomorrow or in case there's no demand for anyone to ever see a sequel. (Two things that I hope don't happen, incidentally.)” TwoRealSelfHappensRunningPayCasesNovelFashionEmotionalTomorrowDemandTwo ThingsAddressesPlotBusConvincingTangibleSequelsLingeringSelf Contained Author:Tod Goldberg
“Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.” ThinkingMindRealEndsStoriesNovelGreaterEffectsEmotionalSittingRhythmEmotional Power Author:Adam Ross
“I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.” KnowsNeedsYearsTwoRealThreeNovelProjectsScriptsThree YearsHonorable Author:Robert Schwentke
“I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with a coincidence in real life - that you feel as if something divine has intervened and has arrived with a message.” IfsFeelsRealFeelingsNovelRiskDivineMessagesReal LifeCoincidence Author:Alexander Chee