In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis. — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?" "Yes." "Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print -… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
