Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had… — Anthony Copy Share Image
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