Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way… — Kevin Canty Copy Share Image
Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“When he had brushed a thin coat of dust off the pebbled leather cover of one volume, he saw the words: Register… — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize… — LEVega Copy Share Image
I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“Whatever’s eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.”… — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel. — James Wright Copy Share Image
“Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for good reason.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer, — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation.… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“My breath is halted, like grasping for air after crying far too long and hard. It is like a hiccup, with a… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
