I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A self-confessed fan of Harlan Coben, I find it difficult to not read a new Harlan Coben novel the week it comes… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. — John Irving Copy Share Image
A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in… — John Green Copy Share Image
A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in.… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.” — Claire Wingfield Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
