Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that you don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard… — Mark Billingham Copy Share Image
I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image