We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. — John Irving Copy Share Image
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters,… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
