Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy… — Adam Reed Copy Share Image
I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel. — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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