It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel. — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I hope you don’t mind my joining you,” said Leanne. I minded. After all, she’d tried to kill me. A girl in… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza...” — Lola Smirnova Copy Share Image
At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand,… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
“She knew this day was different and worse, much worse than before. This was the day that Bethany began to believe their… — Katie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice"… — Stephen Holden Copy Share Image
“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
