My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It's great to imagine and visualise while reading a novel. It doesn't always work for a film. 'Pavithra' had a good script… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
“So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?" "Yes." "Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to… — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
