Novels – A Pondering Mind

Writing

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn’t know how to write essays. ~ Jose Saramago

“Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course, you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.” ~ Joan Didion

Reading A Novel

“When you’re reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do …

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A Good Novel

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen

Novels Are Fictions

“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.” ~ Paul Auster

Movies are not novels ….

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done. ~Paul Auster

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Novels are fictions ~ Paul Auster

“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.” ~ Paul Auster, Author (B. February 3, 1947)

Serious Novels

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are

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A good novel ……

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