“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his… — DMX Copy Share Image
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera,… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry-- really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about… — Jennifer v Clancy Copy Share Image
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.” — Mira Lyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
“Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.” — Angélica Calheiros Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
“There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
