“Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.” FirstsBelieveStatesI BelieveUnitedAttentionUnited StatesNovelPiecesGreenReviewsIntriguingPartisans Author:Terry Southern
“Probably writers should forget what it was like to write the last novel, and the one before that, and the one before that, or we should all be plumbers. It must be good to be a plumber. Everyone is happy to see you, and no one reviews your work.” ShouldWritingLastsForgetNovelBe GoodReviewsPlumberHappy To See You Author:Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
“The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.” BookReadingLiteratureFictionNovelPercentScience FictionSevenOur TimeReviewsNinetyRubbishWorth ReadingGood Science Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.” SaidImportantWarAgePastLeftDarkNovelGoes OnEvidenceDoctorsRelationCancerMedicalCuresAssumptionReviewsSenateDark AgesHolmesDiplomatsCharlatansBrandedForeign RelationsPasteurCancer Cure Author:Paul Douglas
“Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.” IfsThinkingKnowsDoeFactsNovelExamplePicksMalesJournalistUnconsciousReviewsBiasCoverage Author:Emma Donoghue
“A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.” EndsHardPurposeNovelWanderPlotReviews Author:Mardy Grothe
“If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film rights are sold to almost every novel, but it shouldn't be the lead story in your first engagement with the press. Then you end up getting reviews like "a novel made for the screen" and things like that.” IfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanEndsStoriesFilmYoungNovelRightsAdvicePressesScreensReviewsEngagement Author:William Monahan
“Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.” IfsGuyLostNovelFiguresSixEatingOrdinaryReviewsImpetusBrosWarner Bros Author:William Monahan
“The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.” WritingFirstsIdeasFormVoiceNovelCome UpConsistentHotelReviews Author:Rick Moody
“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
“The reviews on it, and the new novel, Honky Tonk Samurai have been awesome, though I'm of the school if you believe the good ones you got to believe the bad ones, it's been mostly good ones. The previewers seem to be very happy and excited about it. I know I am. There are plans to continue if it does well.” IfsKnowsBelieveWellsDoeHas BeensSeemsSchoolNovelPlansExcitedReviewsVery HappyIf You BelieveSamuraiTonks Author:Joe R. Lansdale