Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. — John Irving Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.' — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I was working on a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a small Indiana town. Then I remembered Jim… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way… — Kevin Canty Copy Share Image
“I tought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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