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Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.
Sandra Cisneros

Life, View, Events

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
Jan Karon

Food, Writing, Hungry

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
Jilly Cooper

God, Book, Learn

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.
Gene Hackman

Great, Fun, Learn

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
Tracy Kidder

Vietnam, Combat, Wrote

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
Michael Chabon

Love, Work, Road

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
Julian Barnes

Hope, Anxiety, Usual

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?
Julian Barnes

Important, Speak, Lines

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Daniel Bell

True, Moment, Impulse

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Bret Easton Ellis

Writing, Find, Acting

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Walter Murch

Music, Age, Others

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
Jonathan Coe

Political, Small, Become

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.
Jonathan Coe

Life, Real, Might

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
Jonathan Coe

Writing, Mad, While

I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
Charlaine Harris

Hope, Book, Writing

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.
Tom Perrotta

Life, School, Pretty

I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.
Tom Perrotta

Perfect, Write, Themselves

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.
Tom Perrotta

Two, After, Difficult

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
Tom Perrotta

Writing, Temptation, Drama

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
Tom Perrotta

Nothing, Writing, Everything

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky

Poetry, Learned, Young

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
Jerry Pournelle

Future, Happen, Hell

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
Jerry Pournelle

Future, Hard, Off

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.
Aravind Adiga

Book, Writing, Find

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
Chad Harbach

Ultimate, Forms, Medium

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
Chad Harbach

Else, Achieve, Anywhere

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.
Rod Steiger

American, Speak, Chance

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
Ken Follett

War, Writing, Favorite

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Juan Goytisolo

Purpose, Means, Language

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.
Steve Albini

Music, Design, Trying

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