I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Was he shiny and bright and something sucked it out of him? Cecilia thought. But stars are a load of fire, maybe… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label,… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“the presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman was profoundly reassuring. “Iron men in wooden boats,” they were called, as… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
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The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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