Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow,… — Beth Broderick Copy Share Image
I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Whenever I’d get howlin’ over something, he’d grab my ass up from wherever I was and head straight for the john. Momma… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
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