Action Quote by Stephanie Perkins

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus…

— Cynthia Ozick

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much…

— Neil Gaiman

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

— Colum McCann

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in…

— Norman Spinrad

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in…

— Khaled Hosseini