That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock Copy Share Image
The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“How you, uh...How you comin on that novel... you're workin on? - Stewie Griffin, Family Guy” — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were… — John Scott Copy Share Image
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
