“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two… — Mika Copy Share Image
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves… — David Farland Copy Share Image
I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“It happens that in our phase of civility, the novel is the central form of literary art. It lends itself to explanations… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you love.” — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
