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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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 actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
A friend of mine had this idea a few years ago. We thought it would be a great way to promote the… — Nacho Figueras Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia"… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Novel-reading is indeed unusually private, unusually personal, unusually intimate. It doesn’t happen out there, in front of our eyes; it happens in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal… — John Granger Copy Share Image
Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many… — Mordecai Richler 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn't mean you're dim - you may find that Graham Greene is more to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not… — Herman J. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
“«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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