It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
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If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel. — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
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One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G.… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up.… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
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A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — GKChesterton Copy Share Image
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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