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Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays