Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes appeared, followed by impeccably creased matt charcoal...
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A.S. Byatt
As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.
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Em Bailey
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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Doris Lessing
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
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Gore Vidal
If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.
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Tiffany Madison
More Quotes By Zia Haider Rahman
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.
Everyone, he continued, wants his life to stand for something other than what it would, which is about eighty years — in the West, at any rate — eighty years of working, eating, sleeping, shitting, breeding, and dying. Lives of buttoning and unbuttoning — who...
Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing about reckless desire, the temptations of power, and the immanence...
That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.
