The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
“I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff. — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from… — Tom King Copy Share Image
Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription.… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West… — Gerald Haslam Copy Share Image
I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,'… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings. — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
