And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I read scripts movie, TV and theater. I read every novel that is published. I read every book that comes out on… — Van Heflin Copy Share Image
It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it. — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“We’re both in a rut. And when two people have the different open wounds, they can relate and try to heal each… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place,… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic… — John Green Copy Share Image
