These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve… — Johanna Edwards Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature.… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
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
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
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I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
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Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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