I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
One of my favorite comic books of all-time is the graphic novel 'God Loves, Man Kills.' — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . .… — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so… — Sylvain White Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author,… — Mischa Temaul Copy Share Image
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! -… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
