I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It's strength will fade” — Kerry Reichs Copy Share Image
People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Have you chosen your new name?” “I have a notion. How about you?” “I’m thinking on it but I haven’t settled. Tell… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
“Believe me, I knew you enjoyed it without voicing it that way. It was like your body screamed for me to take… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn’t see… — Shelley K. Wall 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 wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
