I love general history. That`s all I read really. I don`t read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that`s really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love. I like micro-...
Steve Zahn
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well jus...
Jeremy Northam
I write essays in the form of novels, or novels in the form of essays. I`m still as much of a critic as I ever was during the time of `Cahiers du Cinema.` The only difference is that instead of writing criticism, I now film it.
Jean-Luc Godard
I write essays in the form of novels, or novels in the form of essays. I`m still as much of a critic as I ever was during the time of `Cahiers du Cinema.` The only difference is that instead of writing criticism, I now film it.
Jean-Luc Godard
[on why she loves the Harry Potter novels] "Sometimes I`m stressed and I`m sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you`re taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different. But also the main ch...
Evanna Lynch
I think a movie can inspire change, absolutely. Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it`s a small change or a big change but you know there`s novels I`ve read or a scene in a film that I`ve seen where I definitely inspir...
Rose Byrne
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. The reason why there`s operas and novels and pop tunes written about love is because it`s such an extraordinary thing, not because it`s commonplace...
Bono
I`ve avoided all my life the romantic stuff which novels and movies are about. Never went in for that mush. Of course, I`ve missed what most people would call the ultimate human experience. But then, I`ve remained my own person, which at my age is a very ...
Madge Bellamy
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.
Alexei Makarkin
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I`m finished with a theme, I`m generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
Richard Russo
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I`d generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they`d turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
Irvine Welsh
Well, to be honest I think I`m a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
Eric Brown
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Alexander Gregg
This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
Ismail Merchant
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they`re 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he`s the guy who does it for me.
Jonathan Coe
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they`re 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he`s the guy who does it for me.
Jonathan Coe
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.
Alexei Makarkin
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
Terry Southern
So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
Billy Bragg
So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
Ernie Pyle
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
Rose Tremain
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader`s teeth.
Anatole Broyard
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