Arcs Quote by Robin Furth

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to…

— Robin Furth

My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story.

— Robin Furth

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm…

— Jonathan Dee

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they…

— Charles Soule

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in…

— David Means

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always…

— T.C. Boyle

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I…

— Miranda July

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