Affair Quote by 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

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

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

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western;…

— Haruki Murakami

As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong…

— E. M. Forster

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief…

— Courtney A. Kemp

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by…

— George Steiner

I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at…

— Molly Harper

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to…

— David S. Goyer

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…

— Vita Sackville-West

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

— Andy Warhol