Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first novel - I was nineteen - I did it very quickly. If you write fast, you feel… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
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I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then,… — Randy Glasbergen Copy Share Image
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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