If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel. — David Means Copy Share Image
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
“When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.” — Jocelyn White Copy Share Image
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think of my life as a cheap novel. Part of you wants it to go on forever, and part of you… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
“Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
