#nov

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#deal #disappear #enforcement #files #friends

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#art #big #big change #book #call

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#having #like #love #making #novel

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. ↗

— John Cale

#been #going #i #many #movie

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#darn #day #fiction #finished #get

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters. ↗

— Jane Campion

#characters #form #i #i love #long

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. ↗

— Edward Felten

#different #different things #doing #happens #innovation

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google. ↗

— Edward Felten

#big #big thing #classrooms #dreaming #founders

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#face #fiction #fiction writer #grew #had

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#certain #come #existence #fiction #into