There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".” — Anne Hines Copy Share Image
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it. — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
“Kuandika riwaya ya kijasusi kama Kolonia Santita lazima uishi kama Myahudi. Lazima uishi kifikra!” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
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“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is. — John Irving Copy Share Image
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