A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy” — Monique Golda Nerman Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting. — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted,… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I would finish my evening online class at 9:30 pm and then after making and eating a quick dinner would then keep… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place,… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
