I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
“Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel. — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her… — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
