The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac 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
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It’s messy, like a beloved, balky child.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author,… — Mischa Temaul Copy Share Image
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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