It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
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Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
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I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
'Carol' takes place in the really early '50s, before Eisenhower has taken office. It's based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, her second… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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