Books Quote by Howard Gordon Download Open image “The novel remains a very special form for me.” — Howard Gordon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Form Novel Remains Special
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all? — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
