“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.” — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a… — Doug TenNapel Copy Share Image
I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
“The happily ever after depends on what you put into it. The hard work, the listening instead of talking, the laughing instead… — K. Bromberg Copy Share Image
“The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“When you've got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I'd write and write and wake up with… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“Taut, intelligent, and intense suspense that is deeply human.”—Mark Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Gunmetal Gray “Exciting and well-layered…David Bell… — David J. Bell Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.” — Mary Deal Copy Share Image
