I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in. — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin Copy Share Image
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they… — John Braine Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of novels for teens and tweens ... but I'd never really tackled the North Carolina side of me.… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate,… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We have this huge discourse on family in this country, but no one deconstructs it the same way. People talk about "the… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.” — Em Bailey Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing. — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. You can guess what will happen on the next chapter, but you will not know until youre… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line” — Priyansh Shah Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
