I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second.… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby 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
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
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Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
If you're working on a novel, whatever you do, don't say, 'I am almost finished with my novel.' It's worse than chanting… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not… — Herman J. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
At the bottom of a Peretti novel is the biblical view of things, the Christian message. Whether you're a Christian or not,… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
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