“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.” — Jocelyn White Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“In a novel, all his life's anxieties, his mixture of strength and weakness, his potential for hysteria - all would have been… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones.… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place. The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think of my life as a cheap novel. Part of you wants it to go on forever, and part of you… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Unless I was to play an accepted character from a novel, I won't put on a toupee. — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter. — Kelly Nelson Copy Share Image
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