#novels

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#century #dense #filled #helium #i

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #different #different roles #essentially #form

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#conflict #even #novels #relationships #suspense

I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music. ↗

— Brian Christian

#reading #design

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#being #christian #dream #grey #her

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#hollywood #hollywood movies #i #kinds #like

Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough. ↗

— Victoria Connelly

#life

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#gulag #novels #utopia #attitude

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love. ↗

— Jayne Ann Krentz

#courage

There is nothing crazy about a dream. There is nothing crazy about pursuing your dreams. ↗

— Destin Bays

#dreams #pursuit-of-happiness #true-love-in-time #dreams