It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
“I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler Copy Share Image
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much. — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas. — Peter James Copy Share Image
“If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.” — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. — Lily King Copy Share Image
