I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
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I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones.… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
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How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money,… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Under the word refuge , I found this definition: "Small structure high in the mountains where climbers can spend the night." In… — Jacques Poulin Copy Share Image
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really… — Candice Accola Copy Share Image
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