The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with,… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“We’re going to make a tunnel for that ship. We’re going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the… — D. L. Given Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and… — Emily Barton 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 began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion… — Robert D. McFadden Copy Share Image
What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
