If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“My breath is halted, like grasping for air after crying far too long and hard. It is like a hiccup, with a… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals. — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel. — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I wrote a graphic novel that came out in 2011 called 'Everlast.' We had a really successful run with that. — Chad Michael Murray Copy Share Image
“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
