I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels. — Markus Zusak 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
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
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
“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
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“We were too close, I thought, I'd never been so close to him except in a dream or when he cupped his… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast.” — Alisa Dana Steinberg 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
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
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 have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.' — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. — Mark Pellegrino 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
The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
