'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television. — James Frain Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing,… — Tom Vater Copy Share Image
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Listen closely. Theres a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I dont give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
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