Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
I think I liked writing a novel better. Obviously, it's more rewarding. It's that marathon thing where it sucks when you're doing… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When parents want you to do really well academically, they want to avoid you getting into anything that would distract you -… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a… — John Fante Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly,… — Mary Pope Osborne 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
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I… — Yukio Mishima 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
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You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing.… — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
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[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
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