Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn't mean you're dim - you may find that Graham Greene is more to… — Nick Hornby 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
... 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
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember… — Orhan Pamuk 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
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
“You can’t blame yourself for what Socrates did. Those birds came because he wanted them to come, at least a part of… — Ken Goldman Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture… — Tan Chorh Chuan Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
“will be six to eight volumes, equaling one novel for $5.94 to $7.92, so it is competitive with industry” — Sicily Yoder Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do. — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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