A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
As for the military or service professionals, I have nothing but respect for them, but come on, when it comes to romance… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would… — Brit Trogen Copy Share Image
But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
