Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
I think that's true of real life - we don't ever know anyone completely. Secrets are very important to creating a narrative… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“He opened the side pocket of his bag and took out a photograph , stared it for long. It had been so… — Vidushi Gupta Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
