I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character… — Paul Auster 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 think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The point about 'state-of-the-nation' novels is not that they should be about the 'state-of-the-nation', but they should be about people. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter. — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
