1,336 Quotes About Novel

مُتعيشًا على الشعر و الملحمة و الأساطير و المحكيات و القصص الخرافية و الشعبية

أسئلة الرواية لا تتجدد بطرح إشكاليات غير مسبوقة بقدر ما تكتسب صلابتها و فاعليتها من خلال تخصيص التجربة الروائية داخل كل حقل ثقافي

only a handful of pregnant women are like Emily; that is, they go to the hospital with pain and get the surprise of their life by delivering a child. Using Emily’s least-favorite math term, decimals, the number would be 0.0004 percent of all U.S. births. About fifteen hundred surprise babies a year.

But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheerful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.

Novel writing, I’ve discovered, is the most liberating. You can write the narrative in the past, present, or future, and from any viewpoint or philosophy, including your own. The only keeper you answer to is your own creativity. It’s total autonomy.

Una novela no es buena ni por su contenido ni por como lo cuenta -dos supersticiones-, sino porque su alquimia resultó permanente sin que el autor lo mereciera. No se explica, no tiene fórmula, es pura voluntad de existencia, pulsión de vida

I was told, and indeed I saw several examples, that neither time nor place was much minded, and that I might hazard being equally careless of chronology and geography; but I piqued myself on having studied Aristotle, and scrupulously attended to the probabilities of time and place.

Novel-writing has in one respect an affinity to the drama—that time and distance are required to soften for use the harsher features that may be exhibited from real life; that it was almost impossible to bring forward events without touching on their causes; and that any tendency to political discussion, however liberal or applicable, was not to be tolerated in a sort of work which people took up with no other design than to be amused at the least possible expence of thought.

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!