Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to… — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's great to imagine and visualise while reading a novel. It doesn't always work for a film. 'Pavithra' had a good script… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book… — Aurora Rose Reynolds Copy Share Image
I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry 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
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“Here’s the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
