Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“He opened the side pocket of his bag and took out a photograph , stared it for long. It had been so… — Vidushi Gupta Copy Share Image
When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. Read as if… — Emma Brynstein Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
