“How can 5 judges decide the best book of the year without reading every book of the year? While some lucky authors… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.” — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in… — M. K. Hobson Copy Share Image
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I… — Kari Wahlgren Copy Share Image
“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke 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
“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It took me a moment to speak. My heart pumped madly as though I’d run for miles in pursuit of something vital.… — J.J. Sorel Copy Share Image
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
