I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet'… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature.… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“He opened the side pocket of his bag and took out a photograph , stared it for long. It had been so… — Vidushi Gupta Copy Share Image
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana.” — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
