I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.” — Tyler Patrick Wood Copy Share Image
I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
“El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It is impossible for any single medium to fully capture the emotion and intensity of war. The Battlefield 3: The Russian novel… — Andy McNab Copy Share Image
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over… — Luke A.M. Brown Copy Share Image
“Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Sam Anderson. “The Greatest Novel.” New York Magazine (outline). Jan. 9, 2011. New York is, famously, the everything bagel of megalopolises—one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?” — Kirstin van Dyke Copy Share Image
