Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. — Michael Holroyd Copy Share Image
“The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Death doesn’t always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.” — Jacquelynn Gagne Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You're not just an assistant — you're mine, Winnie. You're my woman. You're the one I want in my life. I want… — D. Scott Copy Share Image
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
![“[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a…” quote by Ali Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77d/ali-smith-1801_books_property-is-a-brilliant-chillingly-revel_218754.jpg)
