“Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.” IfsWayWritingLooksFilmRoomsNovelProduceHugeColdCostMountainDisparityCold Mountain Author:Anthony Minghella
“The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.” MenArtRealMatterArtistNovelProduceCriticismWorks Of ArtUsual Author:Randall Jarrell
“Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.” IfsWritingPersonsI CanSometimesAbleNovelFourFeetProduceChairsStableBalanced Author:Jose Saramago
“So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.” LongBookCharacterHumanityGirlNaturalPleasureSituationNovelProduceColdBenefitsCreatingIllusionIdealsComplexesIntuitionRidiculousYesterdayEvolveNovelistsConventionalCreamCorrespondingTiresomeDissectionCreating Characters Book:Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.” PeopleThinkingWayJoyProcessNovelProduceSittingAnd LoveDown AndPatientOutcomesGreat AmericanMeticulous Author:Isabel Allende
“I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.” IfsKnowsFirstsOrderNovelProduceMemoirLiterary Works Author:Vivian Gornick
“I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.” StillsStoriesCoursesNovelProduceShort StoryPublishers Author:Charles Baxter
“I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingPlayHelpingFeelingsLanguageSoundNovelEffectsProduceEarsSentencesSensualOddsUnfortunateGorgeousConsonantsSound Effects Author:Tony Kushner