My Novels Quotes

86 quotes by 72 authors

Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people… — Geraldine Brooks
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. — Rita Mae Brown
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling. — A. S. Byatt
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst
All of my novels are democracies. — Amos Oz
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my… — Jim Harrison
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have… — Anthony Burgess
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Ed McBain
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself — Alice Hoffman
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to… — Judith Krantz
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.… — Milan Kundera
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Unknown Author
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting… — John Irving
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself… — Rose Tremain

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