I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Holy hell, Trev! What kind of move was that?” Trevor leaned over her with a big smile on his face. “You really… — Cecilia Aubrey & Chris Almeida Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people -… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler 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
