Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
Lewis Robinson's first novel, 'Water Dogs,' is stuffed with snow. Open practically any page of this book, and crystals will shake out. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects.… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
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