Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that,… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
'Carol' takes place in the really early '50s, before Eisenhower has taken office. It's based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, her second… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism"… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
