I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler 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
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might… — Haruki Murakami 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
Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it's always better if it's a path that you don't… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
“Do we consider that anything goes, that we have no responsibility towards others but only for satisfying our needs? Well, that is… — azar nafisi Copy Share Image
“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along.… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card 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
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's… — Christopher Koch 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
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“Reading novels is good,” Fritz says. “Reading them makes your life better, even in tough times.” — Andreas Kollender 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
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren 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
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or… — Colm Toibin 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
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
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
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
