Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force! — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at… — Kasey Anderson Copy Share Image
Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
“Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being… — Melodie Ramone Copy Share Image
A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is… — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. — Golo Mann Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
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