The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer, — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.” — Abdulrazak Gurnah Copy Share Image
“Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes.… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“I was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Lachlan frowned as he misjudged the distance and his forehead hit Cormag's head with a bump. He wrapped his arms around his… — Elaine White Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known… The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
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