I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.” — Nicholas Dettmann Copy Share Image
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that. — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once… — Giddens Ko Copy Share Image
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life;… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
