The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.… — KL Going Copy Share Image
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
![“The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.” quote by Edan Lepucki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/edan-lepucki-20626_begets_the-messiness-in-my-books-is-nothing-lik_132412.jpg)
![“For a really long time [before writing the novel], I was watching a lot of serial killer movies and I started to wonder if this was a trend and if other people were doing the same thing. That's what happens when you suddenly have a critical perspective on your own behavior.” quote by Lucy Corin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b66/lucy-corin-23165_behavior_for-a-really-long-time-before-writing-th_1977478.jpg)
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