#nov

With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#cost-effective #embrace #government #imperative #innovative

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#book #darkness #did #heart #i

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#began #effort #end #fellow #fellow students

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#children #cities #day #november #one day

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling. ↗

— David Coverdale

#any #because #burn #feeling #i

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#important #makes #most #novel #own

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly