“I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.” GivingWritingTryingMayBookStoriesBigsRealityValuesReadingGoalNovelFiveFourReturnIllusionSizeShort Story Author:James Clavell
“I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.” MenMeanLongDoeTermQualityTalkingNovelIssuesSixStructureSizeCollectionsSpidersGraphicObjectionsSpider ManGraphic Novels Author:Alan Moore
“If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?” IfsFirstsNovelCuttingPagesSizeBookstores Author:Brian Helgeland
“The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.” MatterCharacterArtistNovelCreativeTalentDegreesFilledComplexesSizeWideSymphonyComplex Characters Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.” TwoUseLinesNovelWrittenExampleParticularPaperDistanceSizeHolesSuperstitiousClipFoldersDistance Apart Author:Philip Pullman
“I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.” HumansI CanReadingPowerfulNovelImagineCrimeBrotherSizePunishmentSheerGrandeurPredicamentsCrime And PunishmentBrothers Karamazov Author:Gordon T. Smith
“A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.” IdeasNovelShapesStructureSizeDetermine Author:Don DeLillo
“I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.” WantWritingI CanBookHardNovelStruggleReaderSizeScopeFollow MeCathedrals Author:Barbara Kingsolver