Books Quote by Howard Gordon

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on…

— Richard Schickel

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach,…

— Chang-Rae Lee

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a…

— Deborah Moggach

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

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…

— Flannery O'Connor

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward…

— Alison Pill