If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
“If you were crossing the road and saw a black cat passing, you may possibly get hit by a car, or a… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments… — John Updike Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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