I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years.… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription.… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry,… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what… — David Liss Copy Share Image
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it,… — Tom King Copy Share Image
