“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.” — Teresa Flavin Copy Share Image
The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand.… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't… — James Vance Copy Share Image
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
“I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Perasaan bukan mainan, juga bukan kertas yang mudah dikoyak, diremuk sesuka hati...” — Dodi Prananda Copy Share Image
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
