I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I… — Jane Jensen Copy Share Image
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“I would finish my evening online class at 9:30 pm and then after making and eating a quick dinner would then keep… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“... the old Berlin – last vestige of a mysterious fête – wheeled away from the gravelled road and went lurching noiselessly… — Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly,… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up.… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The reason I did the name change is simple. I wrote a bunch of autobiographical material and I was really enjoying myself… — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world.… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
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