“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas. — Peter James Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. — Lily King Copy Share Image
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.” — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,'… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once,… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I am not sure I knew what I was doing, writing an "apocalypse" novel, when I started this book. Now that the… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
