Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.” — Angélica Calheiros Copy Share Image
“If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“Best or worst, novels are all the same. Nothing but love, love, love; what silly nonsense it is! Why don’t people write… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist,… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
“In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.” — Andy Seven Copy Share Image
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Never name a ship after your wife in one of your novels, then sink it in the next chapter...” — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!” — I.R. Shankar Copy Share Image
“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
