When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have… — Elizabeth Funderbirk Copy Share Image
For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas… — Banksy Copy Share Image
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that,… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink. — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a… — Valerie J. Lewis Coleman Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters,… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well.… — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The two weary but still talkative wizards sat in a pair of fan-backed chairs and pitched pebbles at the drunken satyr in… — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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