My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
