The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
The sad thing is that I only ever read novels in bed and now only on the iPad, and thanks to Netflix… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“(Novels are no use at all on days like these, they deal with people and their relationships, with themselves and others, fathers… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine -… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And… — David Suchet 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
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
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