William Golding Quotes

There are very few films that work like a novel.

I like writing historical fiction.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short story, I wanted to write a novel. Now that I have attained, shall I say, a respectable age, and have had experiences, I feel much more interested in prose, in the novel. I feel that in a novel, for example, you can get in toothbrushes and all the paraphernalia that one finds in dally life, and I find this more difficult in poetry.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night. I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Literature is about telling stories.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.

I'm excited to bring my characters to life in book form.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.