Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You… — Kate Inglis Copy Share Image
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t about gold dust farting unicorns, sugar coated mountains, and fairies. It’s about fun. Romance and romance novels are for pussies… — Scott Hildreth Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“Her heart and soul had already spoken. They wouldn’t let Lucas go.” — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
