In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters,… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it,… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
![“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or…” quote by Robert Anton Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/75d/robert-anton-wilson-1198_bastille_my-wife-liked-to-collect-old-encyclopedi_864543.jpg)
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