I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.” — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you have a novel, exciting finding, that gets attention. People are going to push back, and that's honestly how science should… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something. — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The short story is kind of a precision tool. It allows me a certain type of freedom to go in and out… — David Means Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.' — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel. — Mark Schaefer Copy Share Image
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“You’ll be civilized or we’ll leave your arse here.” Johan... "Vital Perception” — D.L. Given Copy Share Image
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences. — John Irving Copy Share Image
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I… — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
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