When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel. — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited,… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
When I get about five readers I can rub together in one genre, I leave that genre and go somewhere else. And… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".” — Anne Hines Copy Share Image
Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
A self-confessed fan of Harlan Coben, I find it difficult to not read a new Harlan Coben novel the week it comes… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
