The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.” — Natsume Soseki Copy Share Image
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book… — Aurora Rose Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop. — Jeremy Robinson Copy Share Image
“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly." [ Colm Tóibín, Novelist –… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine. — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
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