“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes. — Ralston Bowles Copy Share Image
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big"… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running.” — D.D. Chant Copy Share Image
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel,… — Gerald Haslam Copy Share Image
The other thing that I got back then - the Parker novels have never had much of anything to do with race.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides.… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Whatever’s eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.” — Ken Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life.… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
