There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.… — KL Going Copy Share Image
In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this… — Henrietta Rose-Innes Copy Share Image
The reason I did the name change is simple. I wrote a bunch of autobiographical material and I was really enjoying myself… — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“You can’t blame yourself for what Socrates did. Those birds came because he wanted them to come, at least a part of… — Ken Goldman Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image