My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that.… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
