I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being…It happens… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other… — Felicia Johnson Copy Share Image
“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy.… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful… — Gregory Day Copy Share Image
I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I have never written a novel that volleys back and forth between a couple of different first person perspectives. It's definitely a… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it.… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with,… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
It's hard to hand a script to a director, there's no question about it. You've lived with these characters, you've started with… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger.… — Lisa Unger 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
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
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
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
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
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