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
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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
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
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.… — KL Going Copy Share Image
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot… — Garry Kilworth Copy Share Image
I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“Was he shiny and bright and something sucked it out of him? Cecilia thought. But stars are a load of fire, maybe… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
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In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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