When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody. — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
