Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,'… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults. — Thea Astley Copy Share Image
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what… — David Liss Copy Share Image
All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
