Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages,… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
“No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if… — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that… — Tom Vater Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.' — David Grann Copy Share Image
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance... "The Elder Effect” — D. L. Given Copy Share Image
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel. — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I recalled something I’d read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn’t be as a demon but as… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
