“His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.” — Stephen King (Author Copy Share Image
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green Copy Share Image
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
In a way, I think that the movie Fight Club [1999] did a weird, negative thing to boxing, culturally. I mean, it… — James Toback Copy Share Image
Behind The Curtain of the Night is a life after death movie and it is based on a best-selling novel in the… — Massimo Dobrovic Copy Share Image
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think the term "artist's novel" for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
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