“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is. — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance... "The Elder Effect” — D. L. Given Copy Share Image
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of novels for teens and tweens ... but I'd never really tackled the North Carolina side of me.… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they… — John Braine Copy Share Image
Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace.… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 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
There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
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