You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once,… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
“A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script.… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
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