'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
“His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.” — Angélica Calheiros Copy Share Image
“Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you.” — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist,… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
