Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me. — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop. — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“You stupid fool, you know very well it's not a short novel, but something longer...A piece of work you've got to buckle… — Iván Mándy Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something.… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Focus. She’s Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane’s butt like that? ~ Zach” — Monique DeVere Copy Share Image
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Seperti sungai yg mendamba lautan. Ujungnya, hanya tinggal aku, tenggelam dalam kesedihan” — Dodi Prananda Copy Share Image
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Melupakan berarti berusaha menghapus kenangan, sedangkan merelakan berarti belajar melepaskan.” — Irin Sintriana Copy Share Image
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday, — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
“Splendid . . . a novel for anyone who has a sharp eye and ear for life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
“You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.” — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
