I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels. — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“Are you going to be okay?' 'I thought I was. I'll get over it.' I'd heard too many characters say the same… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Angeline M. Bishop Copy Share Image
“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. — William Lashner Copy Share Image
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” — Angeline M. Bishop Copy Share Image
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
