A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray Copy Share Image
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD… — Jeremy Sisto 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
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.' — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand. — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
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