After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line” — Priyansh Shah Copy Share Image
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his… — DMX Copy Share Image
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“The things that will go I to my handbag are laid out on my dressing table. Two packets of pocket tissue, one… — Oyinkan Braithwaite Copy Share Image
I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing. — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. You can guess what will happen on the next chapter, but you will not know until youre… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“never assume that just because you see something in a novel, it reflects the author’s own personality or interests.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long"… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
