“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me. — Ralph H. Baer Copy Share Image
Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to… — Jack Hodgins Copy Share Image
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
