In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).” — Danny Saunders Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Seorang novelis sebaiknya menciptakan “sebuah wilayah di mana tak seorang pun memiliki kebenaran...tapi di mana setiap orang punya hak untuk dimengerti” — Goenawan Mohamad Copy Share Image
reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . .… — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel... — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't… — Alexandra Kollontai Copy Share Image
