“Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza...” — Lola Smirnova Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book.… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice.… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new… — John Irving Copy Share Image
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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