“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”
“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”
“perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn't discovered the twist.”
“There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.”
“I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).”