When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I don't think I could form my writing into scripts or novels. It's so sporadic. My writing's pretty poor. I often think,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Continuo a vender alguns quadros através da galeria de Nice, é certo, mas tenho sempre dificuldade em desfazer-me das telas e sobretudo… — Rui Carruço Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.” — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
