American Quote by David Means

I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a…

— Chris Cleave

A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and maybe more…

— Peter Orner

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring…

— Debra Dean

“The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be…

— Patricia Hickman

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third…

— Ian Mcewan

I'm writinng my first full-length novel, which is based on a novella I wrote called "The Mad Scientist's Daughter." I'm having a wonderful time…

— Theodora Goss

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still…

— Tod Machover

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw…

— Alan Moore

“Our story is the kind that sets emotions on fire”

— J.WOLF

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to…

— Bill Bryson

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

— Dominick Dunne