Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks… — David Mitchell 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
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period… — Paul Auster 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
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
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
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I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Will this ever be over?" "In time. When the Thieves find something else worth stealing." "And then what?" "They'll tell the Stolen… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that.… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
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All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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