“People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
“That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us… — Abdulrazak Gurnah Copy Share Image
Dreamlike sequencing is perhaps one of João Gilberto Noll's most remarkable triumphs in Quiet Creature on the Corner. I translated the novel… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me.… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A.… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say,… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
