Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“It happens that in our phase of civility, the novel is the central form of literary art. It lends itself to explanations… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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