I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life;… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
