Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel. — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday, — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing plays most. I haven't written a radio play in a while and I don't write short stories anymore because… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.” — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
“Splendid . . . a novel for anyone who has a sharp eye and ear for life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
“Focus. She’s Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane’s butt like that? ~ Zach” — Monique DeVere Copy Share Image
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
“Seperti sungai yg mendamba lautan. Ujungnya, hanya tinggal aku, tenggelam dalam kesedihan” — Dodi Prananda Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
