Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place,… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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