Books Quote by L.D.C. Fitzgerald

The stuff we have been told off record tends to be the stuff that is true and the stuff we are told on record…

— Emily Maitlis

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

— Nicholson Baker

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or…

— Anonymous

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

— Maurice Herzog

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In…

— Brian Helgeland

In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after…

— Junot Diaz

The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've…

— T.C. Boyle

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season -…

— Cillian Murphy

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie…

— Thomas Lennon

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

— C. S. Lewis

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

— Willie Nelson