Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?” Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did… — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
One of my favorite comic books of all-time is the graphic novel 'God Loves, Man Kills.' — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice,… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
In a way, I feel that we're always connected, maybe you and me, we've been connected - not only now, but before.… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
