Best My Novels Quotes
86 My Novels quotes by 72 unique authors
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I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
— Francoise Sagan
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My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
— Roddy Doyle
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
— Tom Perrotta
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
— Manuel Puig
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I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two…
— Tom Perrotta
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My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
— Scarlett Thomas
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Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something…
— Juliet Marillier
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Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is…
— Martin Amis
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I think of my novels as entertainments.
— Stephen L. Carter
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I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just…
— Alexei Sayle
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I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and…
— Steve Berry
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What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the…
— Lisa Gardner
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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
— Megan Abbott
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The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller…
— Alex Berenson
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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that…
— Michael Cunningham
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I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
— Michel Houellebecq
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My novels are all ideas.
— Michel Houellebecq
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A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where…
— Peter James
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My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other…
— Will Self
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The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach…
— Chinua Achebe
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
— Scott Turow
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I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it,…
— R. A. Lafferty
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All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe,…
— Paul Auster
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