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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
“On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed… — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books.… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
“Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered… — Tom Cardamone Copy Share Image
I didnt expect the novels to be a success with anyone, so no. However, Im not surprised that there is an adult… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.… — Will Schwalbe 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 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
