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
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's… — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“He found Granny on the porch, asleep. Her chin sat on her chest, rising and falling with her breath. He gathered her… — Taylor Brown Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco 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
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
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.” — Em Bailey Copy Share Image
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in. — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin Copy Share Image
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
