My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is. — Quiara Alegria Hudes 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
“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
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
“Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It just literally never an option!” — Lillian R. Melendez 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
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
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck 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
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
