The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: The dusty… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns. — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
![“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ff6/william-faulkner-306_absolutes_yes-sir-you-can-be-more-careless-you-can_1716854.png)
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