Novelistic Quotes

#1. As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

Nic Pizzolatto

#2. But the obsessional work of cutting and pasting also enacts, in the most literal way possible, the generic annexation of the poetic by the novelistic. When

Ann Radcliffe

#3. I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I may do one day. But the simple answer is that it does not excite the novelistic part of my brain; it does not fire it up.

Sebastian Faulks

#4. Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today.

Jonas Mekas

#5. Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Norman Mailer

#6. Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

Rick Moody

#7. It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.

Gregory Benford

#8. Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.

Richard Corliss

#9. Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

Adrianne Palicki

#10. The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.

Lav Diaz

#11. Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Lily King

#12. I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.

Ben Lerner

#13. Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Tobias Wolff

#14. Twitter is almost novelistic.

John Niven

#15. Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

Milan Kundera

#16. The mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Howard Raiffa

#17. Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.

Vito Acconci

#18. Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.

Chia Thye Poh

#19. I will whisper secrets in your ears,
just nod yes and be silent.
A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this journey

Rumi

#20. Season of Joy:
She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year.

Brian Andreas

#21. I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Richard Wagner

#22. Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'

Alan Sugar

#23. As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

John Harwood

#24. Make every kiss a celebration, throw a party for every one.

Ali Harris

#25. In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.

Luke Evans

#26. Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

Mario Andretti

#27. A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Umberto Eco

#28. Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

Paul Greengard