The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
“El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. Better still if the novel in question is large enough… — Laura van den Berg 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
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
I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
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