I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was always an album guy, not a greatest hits kind of guy, not so much a radio guy. I'm not saying… — Mark Stoermer Copy Share Image
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
“The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.” — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
“A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It’s messy, like a beloved, balky child.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me. — Ralph H. Baer Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas Copy Share Image
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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