I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.' — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 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
I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers. — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“Reading novels is good,” Fritz says. “Reading them makes your life better, even in tough times.” — Andreas Kollender Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come… — John Green 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
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked. — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
