There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.” — Santonu Kumar Dhar Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels. — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it? — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being… — Melodie Ramone Copy Share Image
I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel.… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“All they told me was that he was forty-two when he died. I just wanted...to find out more about what kind of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
