I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond,… — Peter David Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant;… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.” — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
