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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.
If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.
Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. “With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.