No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.” — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The start of a new novel carried with it a sense of occasion, and the alphabets in Luna’s mind started to shuffle… — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed… — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
“I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways.… — Victoria Connelly 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
