If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a… — Kathleen Grissom Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly,… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
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