I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Im a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play World of Warcraft, Im a massive gamer, I have Star Trek outfits. — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones… — Jane Pek Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
From the beginning [of the Lincoln in the Bardo], I actually had it in mind not to write a novel. I'd kind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves… — David Farland Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel. — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
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