That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel. — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I think I'm succinct to the point of trying to write the two-word novel. Editing my work almost never means taking anything… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I am not usually such a sluggard," he said, as we walked quickly along the street, "but yesterday evening I got a… — R. Austin Freeman Copy Share Image
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride Copy Share Image
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. — Matthew Vaughn Copy Share Image
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Ah brother, things will be better now. I promise.” Ronan... "Vital Perception” — D.L. Given Copy Share Image
“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. — John Green Copy Share Image
“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
