I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
“...While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true… — Richard C. Cox Copy Share Image
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,'… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come… — John Green Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son has entered it in a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I… — Felicia Johnson Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
