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I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel. — Nathan Englander
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names… — Max Shulman
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects… — Marvin Kalb
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological… — Philip Hensher
It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever… — Tim Wynne-Jones
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A… — Skip Horack
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and… — Skip Horack
I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all… — Chris Colfer
Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to… — Chris Colfer
I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know,… — Bill Bailey
When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when… — Colin Firth
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I… — Joan Collins
In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did… — Chow Yun-Fat
I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel. — Bill Mumy
Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different… — Bill Mumy
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human… — Jeremy Northam
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. — Alex Winter
If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't… — John Tesh
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same… — Dawn French
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting. — Holliday Grainger
The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film. — Lewis Baltz
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he… — Sam Lipsyte
John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a… — Unknown Author

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