I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels. — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't… — Alexandra Kollontai Copy Share Image
Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly,… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
I've had stuff of mine adapted by other people, so I've come to the conclusion that a movie is a different form… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“If you were crossing the road and saw a black cat passing, you may possibly get hit by a car, or a… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).” — Danny Saunders Copy Share Image
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel... — John Hurt Copy Share Image
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
![“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or…” quote by Robert Anton Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/75d/robert-anton-wilson-1198_bastille_my-wife-liked-to-collect-old-encyclopedi_864543.jpg)
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