I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
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I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects.… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool… — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world,… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
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'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. — Albert S. Ruddy Copy Share Image
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
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Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
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