If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. — John Irving Copy Share Image
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“I cieli non sono umani e la vita sopra di me e sotto di me e dentro di me neppure.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never… — Tom Xavier Copy Share Image
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Life is God's Novel. Let Him write it. -Isaac Bashevis Singer” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image