I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
“He heard a furious rustling, a disturbance in the trees. He followed Zander’s final glance and saw the angel frozen in mid-air,… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“The gods command that there can be only one king. But I swear that I am no better than a common soldier… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel,… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.…… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us… — Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker Copy Share Image
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I've been associated with Macmillan for over 45 years. I'd like to thank them for their continued commitment to my backlist and… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her… — Florenz Ziegfeld Copy Share Image
I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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