A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?” — Kirstin van Dyke Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wrote a graphic novel that came out in 2011 called 'Everlast.' We had a really successful run with that. — Chad Michael Murray Copy Share Image
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from… — Tom King Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot… — Garry Kilworth Copy Share Image
I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
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