It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
“I'm gonna sit around here, stay away from there I'm gonna make pretend I just don't care. I could get up, go… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had… — Jasmine Cresswell 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
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
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice"… — Stephen Holden Copy Share Image
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets… — James Parton Copy Share Image
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me… — Robert Giroux Copy Share Image
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
'J' is a novel. A story about what it is like for people after a terrible event. And it is a love… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The Kitchen was a really great concept; it just wasn't at the price point that made it accessible to people. People could… — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it's always better if it's a path that you don't… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“When a novel lacks the indefinable, unmistakable thing we call beauty, one looks in it for sound delineation of character, or humour… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
