“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished… — Rahul Rampal Copy Share Image
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. — Judith Rossner Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami” — Alejandro Colliard Copy Share Image
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“The men were smashing windows and aiming their weapons through them. The driver had opened the door and was shouting for the… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Always, at the end of every book, there are things you will be unsatisfied with, and still more things that later on… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Had Zach just apologised for kissing her? She didn’t know whether to cry or slap his face. ~Maddie” — Monique DeVere Copy Share Image
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
![“[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.” quote by Whit Stillman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/063/whit-stillman-16157_austen_lady-susan-novel-by-jane-austen-is-extre_2313217.jpg)
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