“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.” LooksStillsSchoolResultsNovelProgressHeardChangedHigh SchoolHollywoodElectionProducersLife ChangingScreenwritersDrawersWishbones Author:Tom Perrotta
“In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.” PeopleWritingPlayFactsFilmResultsViewsWatchesNovelCreativeDirectCreative WorkArtificiality Author:Will Self
“The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.” PeopleMadeIndividualBitsResultsNovelTreatsRateMagazinesConsumptionTurnover Author:Trent Reznor
“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.” FirstsBookIdeasStoriesCoursesForceResultsFictionNovelTakenPiecesPerformancesScience FictionMythCoreContactPeterShockingProvocativeFirst ContactMesmerizing Author:Karl Schroeder
“Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.” HumansStoriesResultsNovelAwarenessLonelinessFiguresIntenseWanderCharacteristicsShort StoryFringe Author:Frank O'Connor
“Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.” IfsMayLawRoomsResultsNovelMathematicsPhilosopherMathematicalException Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
“The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.” HumansResultsNovelIncrediblesStabilityHuman ExperienceInflation Author:Russ Roberts
“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
“Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.” PeopleYearsFirstsPersonsHas BeensBookTogetherWishSoundResultsNovelStageRevolutionYears AgoIntelligentSeriesAvailableValuableVersionsManageNarrativeEngagedCollectionsFifteenFirst PersonFifteen YearsHaitianHaitian Revolution Author:Madison Smartt Bell
“Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.” TryingLongDoneResultsNovelComplexesFilmmaker Book:Conversations with Paul Auster Source: Conversations with Paul Auster
“I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.” KnowsHappensLastsVoiceResultsNovelKnowingWrittenFinalsSentencesParagraph Author:John Irving
“I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.” IdeasEndsCharacterStuffResultsNovelHappeningsScriptsEnd ResultsBest Character Author:Alison Pill
“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.” PeopleKnowsMenWritingTryingMindTwoIdeasFactsStoriesBornInterestingResultsNovelClearIncidentsPlungeNovel WritingTroublesomeLocality Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.” FeelsIdeasFilmDifficultResultsNovelUnhappyExceptionDisappointedAdapting Author:Paul Auster
“Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we've had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It's very important to make that differentiation.” PeopleYearsHas BeensImportantBookRealizingResultsNovelViolenceHugeBattleHollywoodComicComic BookSuperheroBreakthroughGraphicGraphic NovelsDifferentiationPerdition Author:Michael Uslan