Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. — E. O. Wilson 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
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
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
“All that's needed now is a great novel that will capture the imagination of the public - move them, enrage them, thrill… — Michael Farber Copy Share Image
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
