I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked. — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.' — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.' — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
