No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,'… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“You're not just an assistant — you're mine, Winnie. You're my woman. You're the one I want in my life. I want… — D. Scott Copy Share Image
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
“Life's Tangled Trail Life with its burdens saved by force; in spite of our blunders, held its course. Then comes confusion as… — Nathan J Bullock Copy Share Image
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
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