There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up… — Maud Newton Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms,… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
I am a big gamer. I am kind of in the beginning stages of creating a graphic novel entity that would encompass… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel. — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience. — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. — Eileen Favorite Copy Share Image
“Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you … and I believe you love me as much,… — santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.” — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper… — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — Laura Elliott Copy Share Image
The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
