In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. — Richard Helms Copy Share Image
I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
