I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
“Focus. She’s Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane’s butt like that? ~ Zach” — Monique DeVere Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make… — Louis Garrel Copy Share Image
“Seperti sungai yg mendamba lautan. Ujungnya, hanya tinggal aku, tenggelam dalam kesedihan” — Dodi Prananda Copy Share Image
