The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience… — William James Copy Share Image
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache,"… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
TV was the boogey man when I was growing up. Video games are the boogey man now. The novel was once a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Our developers are constantly thinking about, 'How do I bring new and novel experiences to our platforms?' whether it's the Switch, 3DS,… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him.… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
![“The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward…” quote by T.C. Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e6e/t-c-boyle-8108_add_the-hardest-thing-in-a-novel-is-time-you_81637.png)
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