Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war,… — Fred Hammond Copy Share Image
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened in it is of… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“How you, uh...How you comin on that novel... you're workin on? - Stewie Griffin, Family Guy” — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
