Quotes About Expression

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I've never abandoned the novel.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

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

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.