Novels Quotes · Page 7

“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

— Sachin Kundalkar

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

— Laura Vandervoort

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

— Harlan Coben

“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.”

— W.H. Auden

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice…

— Philipp Meyer

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in…

— Eleanor Catton

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

— George Stephen

“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

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

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful…

— Simone Elkeles

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

— Anne Tyler

My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led…

— Ashwin Sanghi

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great…

— Lafcadio Hearn

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

A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude…

— Melvyn Bragg

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at…

— John Banville

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle…

— Stefan Petrucha

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always…

— Jess Walter

“When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I…

— Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha…

— John Updike

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

— Randy Alcorn

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

— Pam Houston

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

— John Burnside

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

— Anatole Broyard

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

— William Boyd

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

— William Boyd

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

— Matt Haig

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

— Scott Turow

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

— Anne Tyler

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

— Duane Swierczynski

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

— Donna Tartt

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

— Maurizio Sarri

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

— Helen Fisher

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

— Roger Ebert