At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion… — Robert D. McFadden Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big.… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
Shamefulness is always a huge part of my characterizations. I like protagonists that reveal, either through "honesty" in their various thought processes… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide… — James Young Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal… — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
During my fridge raid way past midnight, I slowly conclude that I've ruined my days worth of healthy eating and exercise. I'm… — Jabeen Waheed Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking,… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
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