Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't write romance novels.
I spend about a year between novels.
I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.
I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.
I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.