I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you -… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
“Have you chosen your new name?” “I have a notion. How about you?” “I’m thinking on it but I haven’t settled. Tell… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation… — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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