The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. — John Irving Copy Share Image
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation.… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“So long time has passed since those days, and since that story, which is still vivid in my memory, and even more… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
