I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Maybe our lives are like imperfect novel. Novels that would get very mixed reviews. — MEG WOLITZER Copy Share Image
I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
People read romance novel one after another, their searching for the one story better than they could write themselves. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are… — Taylor Berke Copy Share Image
“We were too close, I thought, I'd never been so close to him except in a dream or when he cupped his… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you.” — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
