Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children's books that make them special. But there are many dark… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“I avoided my eyes while brushing my teeth, then climbed into bed with a copy of _The Blind Assassin_, because if you're… — Melissa Albert Copy Share Image
“My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“When you've got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I'd write and write and wake up with… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
“The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I lived through those books, songs, television shows, and movies - the way the characters talked, looked, acted. I thought that could… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
