“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary… — James Lee Burke 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
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between… — Dan Chaon 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
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
