Novels Quotes

“You don't choose the novels, they choose you,”

— J. Alchem

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

“Old soldiers never die, they write novels.”

— James Jones

Writing novels is the most exciting

— Sidney Sheldon

Good travel books are novels at heart.

— Jonathan Raban

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

— Michael Imperioli

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

— Stellan Skarsgard

My first two novels were very black comedies.

— Hilary Mantel

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

— Sjon

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.”

— Thomas Keneally

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

— Maria Semple

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to…

— Jessica Marais

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by…

— George Orwell

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to…

— Orson Scott Card

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that…

— Michael Koryta

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal…

— Anonymous

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other…

— Vikram Seth

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not…

— Matt de la Pena

“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along.…

— Mavis Gallant

“Do we consider that anything goes, that we have no responsibility towards others but only for satisfying our needs? Well, that is…

— azar nafisi

“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels…

— Kate Atkinson

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by…

— George Saintsbury

One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the…

— Eleanor Catton

“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might…

— Haruki Murakami

I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay…

— Edmund White

Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it's always better if it's a path that you don't…

— Olivier Assayas

“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply.…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Look at me now. I have done very well without love, at least love in that technical sense, without this fine passion,…

— Rhoda Broughton

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.…

— Anne Bronte

“I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may…

— Diane Johnson

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This…

— Pankaj Mishra

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.…

— Philip Pullman

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it…

— Theodore Roosevelt