What did S. S. Van Dine mean by: There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. - S. S. Van Dine Copy
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. - Jennifer Echols Author
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works - Gabrielle Zevin Author · USA
Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. - Matthew McConaughey Actor · USA
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
