I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
'Monday Mornings' is terrific. It's my wife's show. I'm just lucky enough that David Kelley threw me a bone on it as… — Jonathan Silverman Copy Share Image
One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
