I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
“My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“I avoided my eyes while brushing my teeth, then climbed into bed with a copy of _The Blind Assassin_, because if you're… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
