Novels Quotes · Page 10

“Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.”

— Crystal Evans

“One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.”

— Barbara Pym

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

— Hilary Mantel

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

— Emma Donoghue

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

— John Irving

“Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.”

— Criss Jami

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

— Ayana Mathis

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you…

— Colum McCann

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

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 review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…

— Cyril Connolly

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find…

— Edmund White

The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get…

— Christopher Moore

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they…

— Gioconda Belli

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the…

— Jonathan Dee

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

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the…

— Julia Quinn

“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels…

— Kate Atkinson

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

— Bruce Boxleitner

“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

“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