The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Love is God’s first word, the first thought that sailed through his mind. When he said: Let there by light! there was… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened in it is of… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow,… — Beth Broderick Copy Share Image
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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