Believe Quote by Nicholas Sparks

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

— Jonathan Coe

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but…

— Ian Rankin

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

— Chris Pavone

“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social…

— Gary Shteyngart

Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that…

— Jeff Belanger

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that…

— Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

— Charles Kuralt

Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches, but every…

— Amy Miller

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns…

— Genevieve Gorder