President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel. — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels. — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
“Whatever happens in a romance novel doesn't always have to stay in one.” — Renee Alexis Copy Share Image
The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“He opened the side pocket of his bag and took out a photograph , stared it for long. It had been so… — Vidushi Gupta Copy Share Image
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print -… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman ” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel. — Simon Raymonde Copy Share Image
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.” — Lady Shelley Copy Share Image
“A novel is a made-up work about made-up people in a made-up place, all of which is very real.” — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
