Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.” — Lady Shelley Copy Share Image
“A novel is a made-up work about made-up people in a made-up place, all of which is very real.” — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.” — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
A creative person can suddenly realize it's not 90 minutes. They haven't got to do three acts, they haven't got to do… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel. — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
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Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part… — Patrick O'Brian 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
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It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.' — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
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I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
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