It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne… — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly… — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I've been associated with Macmillan for over 45 years. I'd like to thank them for their continued commitment to my backlist and… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
