“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it? — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana.” — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels. — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
In a way, I think that the movie Fight Club [1999] did a weird, negative thing to boxing, culturally. I mean, it… — James Toback Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we… — David Milch Copy Share Image
William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did… — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
“Međutim, onaj ko ne voli pripadnike drugih naroda, ne voli, naglasio sam, ni svoj narod, te ako kažem da ne volim strance,… — David Albahari Copy Share Image
In some ways I spend longer at non-fiction because there are a lot of different threads to bring together. But non-fiction is… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting. — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
“The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy” — Monique Golda Nerman Copy Share Image
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
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“I cieli non sono umani e la vita sopra di me e sotto di me e dentro di me neppure.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden,… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
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