I don't think I could form my writing into scripts or novels. It's so sporadic. My writing's pretty poor. I often think,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about… — Lily King Copy Share Image
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Unwinding the white strips from our bodies, we let our sadness float to the ground. Women kicked their heels above their heads.… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
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Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel.… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
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I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Socrates is flying. No, he is soaring. The wings behind him beat in a calming rhythm while the cool air rushes past.… — Ken Goldman Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
When I began to write novels, I wanted to keep that element of interaction with the reader that exists in poetry, not… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“He shook his head and thought about it for a second. “Maybe I'm not straight? Can I still be straight when I'm… — Elaine White Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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