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I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I don't think I could form my writing into scripts or novels. It's so sporadic. My writing's pretty poor. I often think,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“Unwinding the white strips from our bodies, we let our sadness float to the ground. Women kicked their heels above their heads.… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about… — Kevin Alan Milne Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that… — Edwin Fontanez Copy Share Image
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“Then he smiles because he knows deep in his bones that his dad has gone and said something really funny probably. He… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
“Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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