I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so… — Sylvain White Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author,… — Mischa Temaul Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels. — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea,… — Pamela Brown Copy Share Image
