Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“I don't think that a novel is supposed to be a guide book to happiness any more than it's supposed to be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries,… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
“I’ll never turn her away, Clyde. She’s my mate. I’ll protect her till my dying breath. I’ll even swallow my pride and… — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason… — John Irving Copy Share Image
