“You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly." [ Colm Tóibín, Novelist –… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine. — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop. — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Early gay novels such as 'Giovanni's Room' and 'The City and the Pillar' were not nearly as important to me as Isherwood's… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together… — Shannon L. Alder 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
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Are you going to be okay?' 'I thought I was. I'll get over it.' I'd heard too many characters say the same… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.' — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
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