Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Through them, the story becomes an argument for a better way of seeing, which has always struck me as being one of… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I am not usually such a sluggard," he said, as we walked quickly along the street, "but yesterday evening I got a… — R. Austin Freeman Copy Share Image
“No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. When you encounter people… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas… — Janni Lee Simner Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really… — James Frey Copy Share Image
A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two… — Mika Copy Share Image
Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The mining towns I describe in the 'Helium-3' novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns,… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
