“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. — John Green Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard… — Mark Billingham Copy Share Image
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Think of the very words “novel,” “romance” — what do they mean but exaggeration of one bit of life?” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why. — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion. — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
