Rob Sheffield

The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

American Journalist

Lev Grossman

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

American Novelist

Gregory Benford

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.

American Physicist

Lisa Joy

But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a level of complexity that you wouldn't ordinarily get to explore just out of the sheer time constraints in a feature.

American Director

Nic Pizzolatto

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.

Jacob Anderson

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

British Actor

Adrianne Palicki

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

American Actress

Ethan Canin

How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

American Author

Richard K. Morgan

I've come to regard the superior end of HBO drama as, above all, novelistic.

English Author

John Niven

Scottish Author

Use 'novelistic' to indicate a method typical of fictional storytelling, often to describe non-fiction.

Genre Indication

'Novelistic' implies creative freedom within writing, contrary to strict factual reporting.

Creative License

When 'novelistic' is used, expect emotional insight and depth akin to character development in novels.

Emotional Depth

'Novelistic' highlights rich, elaborate descriptions that paint vivid mental images.

Rich Descriptions

Use 'novelistic' when discussing stories with complex plots and intricate character interactions.