I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
“If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It took me a moment to speak. My heart pumped madly as though I’d run for miles in pursuit of something vital.… — J.J. Sorel Copy Share Image
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the… — Haruki Murakami 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
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits. — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
