I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. — Judith Rossner Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished… — Rahul Rampal Copy Share Image
A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I've been using Steinberg's Cubase exclusively to record and mix my music since the very beginning of my career. It's no exaggeration… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting. — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
