If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written,… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a… — Alex Berenson 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
A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing.… — Vera Brosgol 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
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether… — John Cheever 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
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from… — Tom King Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
