“To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts” — Kai McCarthy Copy Share Image
I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
“He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. — John Irving Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.” — Nicholas Dettmann Copy Share Image
I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. — Michael Easton Copy Share Image
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
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that. — John Carter Cash 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
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
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way. — Uzodinma Iweala 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
