There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Votes: 4
W. Somerset MaughamAxiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. Votes: 3
E. M. ForsterNovel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. Votes: 3
Barbara PymNovel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. Votes: 3
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorIf only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. Votes: 3
Sylvia PlathIt would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. Votes: 2
Piers AnthonyA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. Votes: 2
Gilbert K. ChestertonThank you for the overwhelming support to novel. NIRVANA 2020Authors-Suryanarayana&Janaki Votes: 0
Saripalli SuryanarayanaTry writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration. Votes: 0
Sir David Baird, 1st BaronetIn 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BowenThe 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. Votes: 0
Richard PowersIt's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. Votes: 0
Manuel PuigIt is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. Votes: 0
Nathalie SarrauteA romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. Votes: 0
Judith McNaughtLike Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times Votes: 0
Katha PollittThe Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsThe novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceWhatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions. Votes: 0
Patricia GarfieldA novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldThe question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? Votes: 0
Nicholson BakerI don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. Votes: 0
Camilla LackbergThe novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. Votes: 0
Wole SoyinkaNo matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaI don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. Votes: 0
Alberto MoraviaFord's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. Votes: 0
Ford Madox FordGo spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. Votes: 0
John GreenSuspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaA novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. Votes: 0
Joyce CaryAfter writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. Votes: 0
Ashwin SanghiThe new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. Votes: 0
Thomas GuthrieNarrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Votes: 0
Eugenio MontaleI have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. Votes: 0
Guy Gavriel KayPublishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define. Votes: 0
Chet WilliamsonLandscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. Votes: 0
Robert HughesPublishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define. Votes: 0
Chet WilliamsonThe great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . Votes: 0
Italo SvevoShow me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic. Votes: 0
Svetlana AlexievichThe novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. Votes: 0
Leslie FiedlerI never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauWhen one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. Votes: 0
Daphne du MaurierI wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. Votes: 0
Yasunari KawabataThe truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. Votes: 0
Sloane CrosleyI want to write a novel about Silence," he said; "the things people don't say. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfA great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. Votes: 0
Katherine PatersonThe novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. Votes: 0
Randall JarrellWhile writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. Votes: 0
Jane GardamAnyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. Votes: 0
Evelyn WaughWhen I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. Votes: 0
William NicholsonI started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel. Votes: 0
Rob ThomasThere is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. Votes: 0
John le CarreThere is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Votes: 0
Zadie SmithIn my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. Votes: 0
Jonathan LethemI have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Votes: 0
Kenzaburo OeWhen you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink. Votes: 0
Molly CrabappleSomehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. Votes: 0
Chad HarbachThe desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel. Votes: 0
Jane SmileyA lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. Votes: 0
Peter StraubThe graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. Votes: 0
Walter HillFor a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. Votes: 0
Eileen FavoriteAn economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. Votes: 0
Edmund PhelpsThe bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. Votes: 0
J. G. BallardDon't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieThe great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamI'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. Votes: 0
Mary KarrComics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. Votes: 0
Francoise MoulyThe novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaI was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. Votes: 0
Alain de BottonEvery novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodI love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. Votes: 0
Michael ChabonThe theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. Votes: 0
Peter R. GrantEvery novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. Votes: 0
Tom ClancyAs for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. Votes: 0
Tom PerrottaIn a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleThere are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Votes: 0
Doris LessingRecently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. Votes: 0
Jourdan DunnHe was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. Votes: 0
Raymond ChandlerHistory is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Votes: 0
Edmond de GoncourtA novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They're all parts of yourself. Votes: 0
Janet FitchI read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. Votes: 0
Noah BaumbachIt was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyReading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair Votes: 0
Stephen KingA novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. Votes: 0
E. L. DoctorowMy experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. Votes: 0
James ThayerHistory is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. Votes: 0
Jules de GoncourtWhen I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. Votes: 0
William GibsonOften it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. Votes: 0
Martin AmisEvery movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred. Votes: 0
Sherman AlexieI am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. Votes: 0
Manju KapurWriting a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. Votes: 0
Steve BisleyA first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. Votes: 0
Stuart WoodsI read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. Votes: 0
Kenneth BranaghTo remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. Votes: 0
Anita BrooknerIt's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. Votes: 0
Susanna KearsleyMy father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. Votes: 0
Anne WaldmanI cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? Votes: 0
Irwin ShawI believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. Votes: 0
John IrvingI wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. Votes: 0
Taiye SelasiWell, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. Votes: 0
William Peter BlattyIt's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. Votes: 0
E. O. WilsonEveryone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayA writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. Votes: 0
Mo YanI have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterWith relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. Votes: 0
David ShieldsWriting a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. Votes: 0
Frank YerbyThe novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Votes: 0
Rosamond LehmannSince I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel. Votes: 0
Thomas SteinbeckThe novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. Votes: 0
Khaled HosseiniA novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaIt's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. Votes: 0
Norman MailerIt's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel! Votes: 0
James EllroyA novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. Votes: 0
StendhalI always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel. Votes: 0
Monica AliIf a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end. Votes: 0
Peter OrnerThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Votes: 0
Dorothy ParkerThe novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. Votes: 0
Alberto MoraviaMy new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. Votes: 0
Ayelet WaldmanIn a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. Votes: 0
Elizabeth MoonHow are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly? Votes: 0
Robert FrostBuilding a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe. Votes: 0
Jill McCorkleThe only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. Votes: 0
Henry JamesMy family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. Votes: 0
Anne TylerIn a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. Votes: 0
Elizabeth MoonDon't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyHistory gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. Votes: 0
Simon SchamaWhen you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right. Votes: 0
Kurt BusiekThe most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story Votes: 0
Brandt LeggA novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThere simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. Votes: 0
S. S. Van DineYou are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Votes: 0
Italo CalvinoFirst electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel. Votes: 0
Lady VioletI always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings. Votes: 0
Sefi AttaSeminaked men! Jacky trilled. âWith swords, Kat purred. âIt is a romance novel! Votes: 0
P. C. CastIt's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. Votes: 0
David AntinListening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes. Votes: 0
Ralston BowlesI could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Votes: 0
Louise BrownThe whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. Votes: 0
Diane JohnsonIf there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingEach piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. Votes: 0
Norman LockAnyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasI started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. Votes: 0
Ned BeaumanI couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. Votes: 0
Alastair ReynoldsUsually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do. Votes: 0
Alix Kates ShulmanReading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. Votes: 0
Sydney PollackI do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel. Votes: 0
Galileo GalileiLife is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. Votes: 0
Aidan ChambersMy idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettA novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. Votes: 0
Johnny RichI never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. Votes: 0
Donna LeonThe facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. Votes: 0
Victoria GlendinningI've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. Votes: 0
Daniel PennacEvery time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. Votes: 0
Mark TwainFor some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. Votes: 0
James N. FreyI set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. Votes: 0
Graeme SimsionI don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.' Votes: 0
Joseph HellerYou know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. Votes: 0
Michael ConnellyThen I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathA novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. Votes: 0
Walker PercyA good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. Votes: 0
Louise PennyI think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareIt's a rare reader who doesn't go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. Votes: 0
Norman RushIn my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. Votes: 0
Dean KoontzI hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. Votes: 0
Anna QuindlenA novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. Votes: 0
Julia AlvarezWhenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiMy second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it. Votes: 0
Alan LightmanMy first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. Votes: 0
Brian HodgeWhen you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. Votes: 0
Sidney SheldonI had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. Votes: 0
Sylvia PlathWhy did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing. Votes: 0
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieIt is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. Votes: 0
Golo MannI found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. Votes: 0
John Thomas SladekWhen I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. Votes: 0
Frederick BuschIf I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussMy first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. Votes: 0
Vikas SwarupA novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. Votes: 0
Helen DunmoreAs far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. Votes: 0
William GoldingWhen I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel. Votes: 0
John CaseyI'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. Votes: 0
Stephen CollinsThe search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanOne man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. Votes: 0
Stanley KubrickThere are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. Votes: 0
Zane GreyI've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. Votes: 0
Elizabeth OlsenI always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. Votes: 0
Carlos FuentesA good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaFor years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, Votes: 0
Alice MunroYou never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. Votes: 0
Gene WolfeIf I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel. Votes: 0
Chris d'LaceyWhen starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. Votes: 0
Kingsley AmisWriting a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. Votes: 0
Lucy EllmannEver since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. Votes: 0
Jo NesboThe only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. Votes: 0
Philip GerardYou can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year Votes: 0
Ray BradburyYou can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyI began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in. Votes: 0
Angela CartwrightA novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. Votes: 0
Mary Russell MitfordWriting a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Votes: 0
Bret Easton Ellis"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. Votes: 0
Amos OzThe building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. Votes: 0
John IrvingEvery once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. Votes: 0
Zane GreyA kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be... Votes: 0
Hermann BrochI don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. Votes: 0
William GibsonI am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday. Votes: 0
Andrea HirataA novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. Votes: 0
Rose TremainA novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Votes: 0
Kenneth TynanIt takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. Votes: 0
Dana SpiottaIt is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. Votes: 0
Asa LarssonI think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. Votes: 0
Alice MattisonI had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. Votes: 0
Patton OswaltI had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. Votes: 0
Patton OswaltI knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. Votes: 0
Judith RossnerWriting a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. Votes: 0
Jay NeugeborenThere is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. Votes: 0
C. S. ForesterIf I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. Votes: 0
Ted RallWhen you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.
Alejandro ZambraWhenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you...
Alexander CheeThe ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
Edward AbbeyI was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHalf the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
Iain BanksIt goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.
James WrightThe only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.
Janet BurrowayI never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
John IrvingNo Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.
Michael ConnellyI can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
Rose TremainShe liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
Stella GibbonsCharacters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
Harper LeeI guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.
Howard GordonThe first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
Jess WalterWhen I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
Jose SaramagoThe novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.
Ray BradburyWhile writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
Charles StrossNo romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ãntonia.
H. L. MenckenAnthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
Lily KingI kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
Neil GaimanWriters are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel. Votes: 3 Joyce Carol Oates
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it. Votes: 3 Kathy Reichs
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. Votes: 3 Peter Shaffer
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. Votes: 3 Lois Lowry
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. Votes: 4 Matthew Tobin Anderson
I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two. Votes: 4 Dave Pirner
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. Votes: 1 W. Somerset Maugham
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. Votes: 3 Thomas A. Edison
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind. Votes: 1 Kevin Henkes
I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself. Votes: 1 Joyce Carol Oates
NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance. Votes: 4 Michelle J. Howard
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. Votes: 1 Michael Chabon
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. Votes: 3 Lisa Gardner
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 1 Helen Dunmore
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. Votes: 1 Paul Berg