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
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
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
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
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Writing a novel isn't like building a brick wall. You don't figure out how to do it, and then it gets easier… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
I often say to my students in workshops that if they are trying to find literary inspiration, they should not go and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work.… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least… — Gail Godwin 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 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
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
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
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
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
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're… — Jonathan Coe 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
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
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
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
