When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach… — Pope Agatho Copy Share Image
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a… — Kathleen Grissom Copy Share Image
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of… — Ian Williams Copy Share Image
I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In the earlier novels, Steve King tells us that John Farson, and perhaps even the Crimson King himself, are but other names… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works,… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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