Adaptation Quote by Richard Schickel

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

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

— Megan Abbott

“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its characters, the…

— Todd Alcott

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Steven Bochco

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as…

— Michelle Dean

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

— Janet Fitch

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the most decorated…

— Dawn Foster