“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It just literally never an option!” — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
“And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
“He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“Was he shiny and bright and something sucked it out of him? Cecilia thought. But stars are a load of fire, maybe… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
