Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it,… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come… — John Green Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.” — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
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