Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t about gold dust farting unicorns, sugar coated mountains, and fairies. It’s about fun. Romance and romance novels are for pussies… — Scott Hildreth Copy Share Image
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your… — Mark O'Donnell 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 all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the… — Julia Quinn 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
Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St.… — Tadashi Shoji Copy Share Image
I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters. — Alain de Botton 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
“There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“...While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true… — Richard C. Cox Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“I collected speech from so called "Smart", "Genius" nation... the judge is going to be made from you... ... Don't worry "Notes… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
