Beatles Quote by David Means

Wellcome Collection will be an exciting place in which to explore themes of human well-being, starting with the powerful collections of Sir Henry Wellcome.

— Mark Walport

The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer.

— Reed Krakoff

If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a…

— Gail Honeyman

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel,…

— Julian Barnes

Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its…

— Adam Ross

“My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say,…

— Maria Edgeworth

“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not five, and…

— Laurie Frankel

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to…

— Soseki Natsume

A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.

— Ben Dolnick