“Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
“Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.” — Melissa Kantor Copy Share Image
“Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I'm always tempted in the back of my mind to continue to write things in the Star Trek universe, in the novels… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
A friend of mine had this idea a few years ago. We thought it would be a great way to promote the… — Nacho Figueras Copy Share Image
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal… — John Granger Copy Share Image
Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know I love a novel with an unreliable narrator, and I think many readers do as well. — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' — David Grann Copy Share Image
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
