Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for… — Michael Levitt 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
“Do we consider that anything goes, that we have no responsibility towards others but only for satisfying our needs? Well, that is… — azar nafisi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende 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
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you.” — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
