You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,'… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
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Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
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I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
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I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
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I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We… — Bruce Vilanch Copy Share Image
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
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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 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
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
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