Quotes on “novels”

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.