“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning,… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or "way," an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed… — Marcy Sheiner Copy Share Image
I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Laura thought Bell would have a few things to say to Pynchon. And Laura had a few things to say to Bell,… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You have to remember that Shadow and Bone' was the first book I sold. And it was, in fact, the first book… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on.… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
