Zadie Smith

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

British Novelist

Karan Mahajan

Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

Indian Novelist

Elin Hilderbrand

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

American Writer

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

American Author

Tom Perrotta

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

American Novelist

Yann Martel

Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Canadian Author

Alan Furst

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

E. O. Wilson

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

American Scientist

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Natalie Clifford Barney

A novel is longer than a short story and often has more complex plots and character development.

Length Matters

Novels create a fictional universe for readers to explore, with its own rules and history.

Imagined World

Novels can reflect the society and time in which they are written, offering cultural or historical insights.

Cultural Insight

When 'novel' is used as an adjective, it highlights something being inventive or not seen before.

Innovation Highlight

Using 'novel' suggests that something is worth noticing because it's fresh and interesting.

Attracts Attention

Although 'novel' often has positive connotations, it can be neutral, just pointing out newness.

Not Always Positive

 They might charge at something that's novel in the environment. So kind of to tell them to get lost, really. They charge at a lot of new people that might come into the area as well. So it's kind of just to assert their dominance, to show their size. And I guess like, it's a way of scaring someone away.

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 whether it's song lyrics combining perfectly with a melody, the thematic content of a painting heightened by its use of colors and brushstrokes, or the well constructed plot of a novel conveyed through perfectly crafted sentences. Most importantly, the network of associations formed by ideasethesia

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 really interesting study she said what would happen if I had people read excerpts of novels so something that they know is fiction with some facts thrown in because fiction writers like to put in a few fact how will they actually see the world are they going to question the fact so for instance

Storytelling can be...

 But just because a huge influx of cash isn't guaranteed to bring joy into your life doesn't mean that money can never make us happier. Findings show that we adapt to extrinsic and material things, like a new car or a bigger house, much faster than we do to novel experiences,

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 "It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.

Why should you read...

 yet fantastical, fictional worlds are created everyday in our minds, on computers, even on napkins at the restaurant down the street. The truth is your imagination and a willingness to, figuratively, live in your own world are all you need to get started writing a novel.

How to build a fictional...

 And that decision echoes throughout the novel, which is full of references to fire and imagery that contrasts light and dark. These moments suggest not only the spark of Prometheus's fire, but the power of radical ideas to expose darker areas of life.

Everything you need to...

 It's about passion, and what excites our spirit and our energy. And if you're doing the thing that you love to do, that you're good at, time takes a different course entirely. My wife's just finished writing a novel, and I think it's a great book,

Bring on the learning...

 have no tolerance for the imperfections of actual human beings. With his novel, Swift established a blueprint for dystopia, imagining a world where certain trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes, exposing their underlying flaws.

How to recognize a...

 planter I came to pemba seven years ago now and I was just living here I was trying to write a novel at the time I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life and borrow kind of heard that I was a tree planter came and we