“Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it… — José Luís Peixoto Copy Share Image
I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?” — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's… — T. Jefferson Parker Copy Share Image
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would… — John Green Copy Share Image
“. ."Isn't Chief worried about the Dan Rather-James Brady syndrome? Getting the news first -- if it's incorrect? And if that wasn't… — Diane Moore Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. — John Irving Copy Share Image
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
