I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.