Novels Quotes · Page 10

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder

With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.

— Emma Healey

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

— Barbara Park

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

— Jennifer Weiner

“Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.”

— Mercedes M. Yardley

Wilbur Smith's novels make terrific holiday reading.

— Michael Ball

“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.”

— Edith Wharton

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

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

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

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

— Piers Paul Read

“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

— Reid Scott

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

— Charles Baxter

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that…

— Nell Freudenberger

“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."…

— Salman Rushdie

“Do we consider that anything goes, that we have no responsibility towards others but only for satisfying our needs? Well, that is…

— azar nafisi

One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the…

— Eleanor Catton

I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay…

— Edmund White

Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it's always better if it's a path that you don't…

— Olivier Assayas

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by…

— George Saintsbury

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the…

— Graham Swift

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have…

— Isabel Allende

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how…

— Carl Hiaasen

“In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.”

— Andy Seven

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

— Lurlene McDaniel

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

— Ellen Glasgow

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

— Michael Helm

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

— Megan Abbott

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

— Clive Cussler

I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.

— Wong Kar-wai

“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife”

— Wilkie Collins

“When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.”

— Shannon Alder

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

— Tom Robbins

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

— John Cheever