“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed… — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
“Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel. — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try… — William Landay Copy Share Image
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.'… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You can't sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
