The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“It's more like how some people can't help but bring out the not necessarily righteous parts of your personality. Like how you… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place,… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“Here’s the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be… But that's the fun of writing a novel… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world -… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for good reason.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The… — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
