In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.