If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott] Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him,… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother’s-novels way, “Ah. Wemeet again.” I turned my… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
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There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My experience with My Sister Rosa showed me, once again, that I have a much easier time of it if I sell… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
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I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
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