When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on… — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If I can give a young author any advice, whatsoever, never let anyone announce the film sale of your first novel. Film… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
If you're a novelist, you have sort of themes that run throughout novels. You start a novel and you finish a novel.… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“All they told me was that he was forty-two when he died. I just wanted...to find out more about what kind of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I sort of fell in love with the idea that we all love things that we're not supposed to, and that, often,… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The… — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world.… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
