Books Quote by Noah Hawley

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

— Jessie Buckley

“That's good, James. Happy and tall beats the hell out of tired and bloated.”

— Bethany Crandell

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond

— Sophie Marceau

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot…

— Yiyun Li

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel.…

— Anne Tyler

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's…

— Hari Kunzru

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a…

— Edmund White

I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene…

— Adam Ross

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull…

— Iris Chang

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional…

— Flannery O'Connor

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to…

— Pearl S. Buck

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid