She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
“I don't think that a novel is supposed to be a guide book to happiness any more than it's supposed to be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
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