When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman” — Alisa Dana Steinberg Copy Share Image
I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I… — Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways.… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo Copy Share Image
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so… — Godfrey Gao 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
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. — John Cale Copy Share Image
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.” — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous 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
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
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