Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. — Michael Holroyd Copy Share Image
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. — John Braine Copy Share Image
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages,… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define. — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance... "The Elder Effect” — D. L. Given Copy Share Image
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my… — John Green Copy Share Image
“To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts” — Kai McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
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