“I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted,… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
