I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they… — John Braine Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I would finish my evening online class at 9:30 pm and then after making and eating a quick dinner would then keep… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place,… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
