It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The relationship of a girl and her favorite novel can be complex indeed.” — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
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