Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems,… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.” — Sarah Langan Copy Share Image
I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper… — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way… — Sarah Blasko Copy Share Image
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;… — Laurence D'Orsay Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret… — Jon Gresham Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
