It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal… — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big.… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
A little more than a hundred years ago, "Tel Aviv" was not a city. It was a title of a novel written… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, you get to read a story of such breathtaking beauty and intelligence that you remember why you… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Life's Tangled Trail Life with its burdens saved by force; in spite of our blunders, held its course. Then comes confusion as… — Nathan J Bullock Copy Share Image
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most… — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label,… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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