If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is… — William Golding Copy Share Image
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead. — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them,… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel. — David Means Copy Share Image
My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“Her friend glanced between Cait and Dante. “But Cait, The Hulk has requested my absence. I believe it best if I cooperate.” — Abby Niles Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Love is a way of living so how can our souls be healthy enough to live without love. I will continue to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza...” — Lola Smirnova Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
