“I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.” ShouldChildrenStoriesNovelEffectsAdventureSucceedShould HaveProfoundRadioFamiliarMediumsComicListenersComic Strips Author:Orson Welles
“One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.” ShouldPhilosophyQualityNovelFiveThousandHundredShould HaveGolden Notebook Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindChildrenImportantBookStoriesHappensWould BeYoungNovelSeriousAdultsShould HaveFeaturesTheme Author:John Boyne
“I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.” ShouldBelieveCharacterLanguageI BelieveNovelDevelopmentElementsShould HaveMetaphorMemoirDialogueNarrativeCharacter Development Author:Danielle Trussoni
“In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.” ThinkingWayWantFeelsShouldWritingCharacterSpeakTermNovelStyleSkillsElementsShould HaveMemoirNovelistsReally DeepToolbox Author:Danielle Trussoni
“I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'” ThinkingShouldWritingHas BeensHalfNovelPagesShould HaveHallsShould Have Been Author:Hilary Mantel
“Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.” ShouldCharacterStoriesNovelShapesShould HaveEvolveAestheticCoherence Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.” ShouldIdeasDoneRealityLyingNovelShould HaveImplied Author:Kate Atkinson
“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.” ThinkingShouldRomanceLife IsLyingNovelMouthsShould HaveStuckBirthdayCakeRoofDeliciousRomance NovelPeanutsJellyPeanut ButterBirthday CakePeanut Butter And Jelly Book:Thanksgiving Source: Thanksgiving
“After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led them little by little to the habit of living in the air, first by the water's edge and afterwards on all the dry parts of the globe. These animals have in course of time been profoundly altered by such novel conditions; which so greatly influenced their habits and organs that the regular gradation which they should have exhibited in complexity of organisation is often scarcely recognisable.” ShouldFirstsLittlesDifferentScienceCoursesWaterAnimalNovelEnvironmentAirConditionsEvolutionHabitShould HaveEnvironmentalEdgesComplexityDryOrgansGlobesVariationAlteredOrganisationDifferent Environments Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck