I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Unless I was to play an accepted character from a novel, I won't put on a toupee. — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter. — Kelly Nelson Copy Share Image
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience… — William James Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art,… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead. — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.” — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something. — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
When you have a novel, exciting finding, that gets attention. People are going to push back, and that's honestly how science should… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.' — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel. — Mark Schaefer Copy Share Image
“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
