Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Melupakan berarti berusaha menghapus kenangan, sedangkan merelakan berarti belajar melepaskan.” — Irin Sintriana Copy Share Image
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
With only one novel to her credit, Anna Jarzab can't quite be classified in Werlin country, but 'All Unquiet Things' is a… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us… — Abdulrazak Gurnah Copy Share Image
Dreamlike sequencing is perhaps one of João Gilberto Noll's most remarkable triumphs in Quiet Creature on the Corner. I translated the novel… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me.… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art,… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults. — Thea Astley Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes,” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.” — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
