I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions. — Patricia Garfield Copy Share Image
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“You’re different, and I know that’s probably the most cliché response ever given, but it’s the truth. When I look at you,… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone,"… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for… — R. Keith Sawyer Copy Share Image
My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
