Books Quote by Toni Cade Bambara

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was…

— Philipp Meyer

“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring vs. banter,…

— Rachel Heffington

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

— Jim Harrison

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

— Zal Batmanglij

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of…

— Katie Finneran

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and…

— Arundhati Roy

I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep…

— Thomas Mallon

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

— Emily Barton

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep…

— Thomas Mallon

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time…

— Randall Jarrell