Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.” — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I am a big gamer. I am kind of in the beginning stages of creating a graphic novel entity that would encompass… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times -… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Ethan: “I’m not asking you to continue that night.” Karis: “Then what are you asking?” Ethan: “For a whole new night.” — Monique DeVere Copy Share Image
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Always, at the end of every book, there are things you will be unsatisfied with, and still more things that later on… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes.… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
