I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished… — Rahul Rampal Copy Share Image
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. — Judith Rossner Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
When I knew I wanted to write a novel that would be a twist on a conventional romantic comedy, I re-watched 'When… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A self-confessed fan of Harlan Coben, I find it difficult to not read a new Harlan Coben novel the week it comes… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
