Aldous Huxley Quotes

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.