Books Quote by Tom Sizemore

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading;…

— Marilyn Hacker

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

— Mary McCarthy

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of…

— Terry Pratchett

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the…

— Rose Tremain

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel:…

— Emma Donoghue

I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to…

— Hari Kunzru

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for…

— Walter Dean Myers

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters…

— Sophie Hannah

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the…

— Ron Rash