I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
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I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly,… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
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Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Listen closely. Theres a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I dont give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
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There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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