I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot.… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago:… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“Ah, yeah. Yeah, tis awful all right. Well, your Mam wanted me to talk to you about it, but…’ He stopped; he… — Ciarán West Copy Share Image
“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I thought Lord of the Flies was one of the great rip-offs of our time. Complete steal from A High Wind In… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Every so often, a novel comes along to remind us that what we hope is true, is true: that understanding is stronger… — Gary Schmidt Copy Share Image
This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers [novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
I have successfully challenged the Western world's existing model of pharmaceutical innovation, which leads to the creation of monopolistic markets for novel,… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes.… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
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