I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“When The Journal of Words compiled its list of the one hundred best novels written in English, do you know that Pride… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“A group of ten prisoners from Dachau, I was with them, we hid in the forest to wait for the Americans. The… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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