I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“WEST SALEM ~ October 2011 A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure… — Cherie De Sues Copy Share Image
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry,… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
