Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I haven't read all of The Witcher novels. And that's only because I am very thorough. I read every detail and often… — Anya Chalotra Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal… — David Means Copy Share Image
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“Fantasy novels reveal “emergency escape routes” from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the… — Sarah J. Pepper Copy Share Image
I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and… — Seth Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on.… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale… — Caitlin Williams Copy Share Image
“I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its… — Todd Alcott Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
“The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
