I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The… — Lisa Yee Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses” — Aziz Hamza 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 Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
