I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman” — Alisa Dana Steinberg Copy Share Image
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!” — Katherine Givens Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,'… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview… — John Irving Copy Share Image
