D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so… — Sylvain White Copy Share Image
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It began with a perfect plan. Shape-wise we had a circle, a simple uncomplicated curve to guide us comfortably from one thing… — Ivana Hruba Copy Share Image
Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately… — Michael Ballack Copy Share Image
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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