Books Quote by Howard Jacobson

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

— Howard Jacobson

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them…

— Mitch Albom

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're…

— Alexander Payne

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

— Janet Evanovich

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

— Mohsin Hamid

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically…

— Don DeLillo

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

— Peter Straub

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

— Colson Whitehead

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting,…

— Brigid Brophy

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

“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel…

— Fernando Pessoa