I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much..

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave..

I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better. But I don't wanna outshine her..

And see she flies, and she is everywhere..

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand..

With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so th….

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances.

What feeds me destroys me..

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them..

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel..

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels..

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author..

A comprehended God is no God at all!.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true..

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like..

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it..

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place..

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do..

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff..

My medium is prose, not the novel..

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings..