He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God.… — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Dreamlike sequencing is perhaps one of João Gilberto Noll's most remarkable triumphs in Quiet Creature on the Corner. I translated the novel… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it,… — Tom King Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
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