“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal… — John Granger Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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