The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.
Novel writing wrecks homes.
