I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of… — Brent Runyon Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Any debut novel is usually a case of spitting into the wind - or, just maybe, casting your bread upon the waters.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you -… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman ” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
"Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
