In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. — Golo Mann Copy Share Image
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm trying to keep it fresh for me. I'm just trying to not bore myself. And if I can do a detective… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with… — Ed Kashi Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Short fiction and the novel, nonfiction and fiction, electronic texts and books - these are not opposites. One need not destroy the… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would… — Brit Trogen Copy Share Image
Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
