“That’s where they found the skeletons. Right where you’re standing.” — Teresa Flavin Copy Share Image
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions… — William James Copy Share Image
I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas'… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings have been made by persons in all walks of life, in all parts of the world.… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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