There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. — John Braine Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from… — Tom King Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs'… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
