I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel. — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice.… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy.… — Steve Truglia Copy Share Image
I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
