The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can… — Mac Barnett 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
Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It almost feels like a movie or a- I know it's been said many times - that cable television is the new… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for… — R. Keith Sawyer Copy Share Image
As someone once said, covers to a novel are like bars to a cage. You can watch the tiger, the Komodo dragon,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
