Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation… — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can’t die for all eternity with no feelings,… — Stavros and contributors Copy Share Image
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find… — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story;… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that,… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
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It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
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