Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana.” — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.' — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly where the ideas come from. One day, a sentence just popped into my head - 'There was going… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
'Monday Mornings' is terrific. It's my wife's show. I'm just lucky enough that David Kelley threw me a bone on it as… — Jonathan Silverman 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
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
