“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
“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.” WantWritingMadeBookCharacterCertainOrderEmotionNovelKnowingInformationReaderAmountPaidStructureGuidesMaintainingPaymentFidelityPaid Off Author:David Bezmozgis
“Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.” WayWritingBookMomentsCharacterMovingNovelStructureEngagedUnpredictable Author:David Bezmozgis
“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.” WantWritingBookCharacterEmotionNovelStructureGuidesFidelity Author:David Bezmozgis
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.” ThinkingWayWritingCharacterFictionVisionEnemyNovelStructureSettingFamiliarSettingsAssumptionThemePlotAbandonedWay Of ThinkingTotalityAll That Remains Book:A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris Source: A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris
“In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.” WritingLanguageNovelDemandStructure Author:Don DeLillo
“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
“For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSelfFeelingsMovingLanguageProcessNovelStructureBusyCome UpSentencesEngagingRevisionCorrelationNew Places Author:Dana Spiotta
“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.” WritingBelieveArtJobsCoursesTermActingNovelPaintingStructurePatternsNovel Writing Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.” WritingKindNovelParticularColorStructureBoardsFrustration Author:Rebecca Miller
“Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.” FirstsThreeNovelFourBuiltStructureHelpful Author:Marcus Sakey
“I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.” WritingClassNovelTakenTrainingStructureFormal Author:Dennis Green
“The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.” BookWholeGivenOpinionNovelDevelopmentStructurePlotLogicalAmbiguous Author:Emily Barton