When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one. — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me. — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop. — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else… — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“The things that will go I to my handbag are laid out on my dressing table. Two packets of pocket tissue, one… — Oyinkan Braithwaite Copy Share Image
Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do. — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“If you want a relationship then just say the word baby. You're mine and I'll give you whatever you want.” — D. Scott Copy Share Image
“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.” — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
“Her friend glanced between Cait and Dante. “But Cait, The Hulk has requested my absence. I believe it best if I cooperate.” — Abby Niles Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the whole of life is a continuous interconnecting of miracle, but we don't always realise it.” — Paul Morris Segal Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.” — Rowena Cherry Copy Share Image
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“will be six to eight volumes, equaling one novel for $5.94 to $7.92, so it is competitive with industry” — Sicily Yoder Copy Share Image
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