ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Believe me, I knew you enjoyed it without voicing it that way. It was like your body screamed for me to take… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn’t see… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too;… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond,… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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