About Quote by Colson Whitehead

If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to…

— Geraldine Brooks

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

— Mohsin Hamid

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are…

— Michael Chabon

A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.

— Howard Jacobson

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of…

— Dino De Laurentiis

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

— Peter Straub

The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created are just…

— Noah Hawley

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't…

— Joan Didion

“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.”

— Sofija

A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move…

— Edward Hirsch

“And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,”

— Ben Lerner