A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high… — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Shamefulness is always a huge part of my characterizations. I like protagonists that reveal, either through "honesty" in their various thought processes… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription.… — Thomas Mallon 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
Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. — Judith Rossner Copy Share Image
I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
