I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden,… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in… — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel. — Lady Violet Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well,… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“That’s where they found the skeletons. Right where you’re standing.” — Teresa Flavin Copy Share Image
