My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair,… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Her flat looked like a mess –a coloring mess. Once you enter it, you can feel like a person had eaten all… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
One of the great things about writing a series is that with each book, the novel is meant to stand alone on… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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