'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money. — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
“Samuel walked out to Lindsey then, and there she was in his arms, my sweet butterball babe, born ten years after my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole. — John Irving Copy Share Image
In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“People snare when I tell them that I’m an emotional prostitute. But after my rebuttal, they begin to realize that they are… — Beatrice McClearn Copy Share Image
There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
