“I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Angeline M. Bishop Copy Share Image
“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. — Ann Patchett 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
“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by… — Clyde Edgerton 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
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha… — John Updike 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
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac Mccarthy Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact I don’t care two pins about accuracy. Who is accurate? Nobody nowadays. If a reporter writes that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
