“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top… — Jose Luis Peixoto Copy Share Image
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way… — Douglas Coupland 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
'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I’ll never turn her away, Clyde. She’s my mate. I’ll protect her till my dying breath. I’ll even swallow my pride and… — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
