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
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
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
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I read too many romance novels during my formative years. I have a penchant for romantic comedies. I understand why 'Romeo and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“That’s the only problem with novels,’ Mia said. ‘They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels,… — David Liss Copy Share Image
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
“Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast.” — Alisa Dana Steinberg Copy Share Image
I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in… — M. K. Hobson Copy Share Image
I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand. — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
