When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“Most of my novels were developped from dreams I had. A dreamer I AM! Literally , at 1 AM. A dream with… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When I was asked to play 'Miss Marple,' I was given the Kevin Elyot script for 'The Body in the Library.' I… — Geraldine McEwan Copy Share Image
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to… — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I often say to my students in workshops that if they are trying to find literary inspiration, they should not go and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top… — Jose Luis Peixoto Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn't reading… — Michael Riedel Copy Share Image
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“You don’t know that my books do good?’ ‘No, I don’t know. I know that men are already getting past “novels” without… — M.P. Shiel Copy Share Image
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects.… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they… — Grace Lin 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
Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
