Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never… — Tom Xavier Copy Share Image
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry,… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“Lachlan frowned as he misjudged the distance and his forehead hit Cormag's head with a bump. He wrapped his arms around his… — Elaine White Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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