“I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.” — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel,… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.…… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
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