I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
Matthew Vaughn

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.
Todd Solondz

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
Alice Hoffman

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
Alice Hoffman

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
Mordecai Richler

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis Johnson

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
Anne Tyler

I spend about a year between novels.
Anne Tyler

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
John Irving

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Alex Winter

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
Sidney Sheldon

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
Evan Hunter

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
Jim Harrison

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Patrick Marber

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
Richard Russo

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
Rebecca West

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
W. Somerset Maugham

I write novels and other things.
Jack L. Chalker

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Manuel Puig

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
Caroline B. Cooney