Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers [novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes,” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.” — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches'… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
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