“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.” — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Angeline M. Bishop Copy Share Image
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble 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
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
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I… — Felicia Johnson Copy Share Image
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
