I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. — George Murray Copy Share Image
I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well. — George P Elliott 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
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
“Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.” — Sohil Ashvin Shah Copy Share Image
My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
I was in Las Vegas, and there was a exhibit of King Tut's tomb, and it was an audio tour. At the… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work.… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
“«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
