My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel. — Mark Schaefer Copy Share Image
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience. — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in.… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
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