Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden,… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to… — Joe Frank Copy Share Image
During my fridge raid way past midnight, I slowly conclude that I've ruined my days worth of healthy eating and exercise. I'm… — Jabeen Waheed Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?" "Yes." "Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
