If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it,… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way… — Sarah Blasko Copy Share Image
The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
