I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels… — Orhan Pamuk 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
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
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
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 lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“The only thing that pisses people off more than stating the truth is using Jesus to state it for you.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have… — Arijit Singh Copy Share Image
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The start of a new novel carried with it a sense of occasion, and the alphabets in Luna’s mind started to shuffle… — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked. — Michelle MacLaren Copy Share Image
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
