If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine -… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are authors like David Foster Wallace or Raymond Chandler - with voice-based authors I might end up a completist, because what… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G.… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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