Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton 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 make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem 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
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply.… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“Look at me now. I have done very well without love, at least love in that technical sense, without this fine passion,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
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