The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
“Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Death doesn’t always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.” — Jacquelynn Gagne Copy Share Image
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“. ."Isn't Chief worried about the Dan Rather-James Brady syndrome? Getting the news first -- if it's incorrect? And if that wasn't… — Diane Moore Copy Share Image
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage]. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere. — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons. — William Targ Copy Share Image
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.” — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it functions, but I think that, in some senses, in those two novels, that was difficult for people to see.” quote by Emily Barton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e7b/emily-barton-18422_books_i-m-not-for-it-brookland-and-the-testame_613821.jpg)
![“A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/104/william-gibson-642_aberration_a-part-of-that-timewrap-for-me-was-growi_553449.jpg)
![“But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy romp for the movies. The books are very, very dark. I also watched 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies,' which is a French film. They just made a second one, I think, which is based…” quote by Adam Reed](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8cb/adam-reed-45165_1960s_but-strangely-in-the-original-matt-helm_2847449.jpg)
![“[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.” quote by Richard Peck](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/659/richard-peck-12655_adults_a-young-adult-novel-ends-not-with-happil_2070116.png)
![“[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].” quote by John le Carre](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/229/john-le-carre-651_books_my-novels-introduce-levels-of-intelligen_2477512.jpg)
