Best My Novels Sayings
86 My Novels quotes by 72 unique authors
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For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
— Mohsin Hamid
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write…
— Carl Hiaasen
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I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social…
— Jodi Picoult
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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
— Tom Robbins
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy…
— Vikram Seth
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I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring…
— Sidney Sheldon
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I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
— Nicholas Sparks
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My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long…
— Donna Tartt
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Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up…
— Colm Toibin
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
— Jack Kerouac
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One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it…
— Regina Doman
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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
— Milan Kundera
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t…
— Umberto Eco
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important,…
— William Golding
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment,…
— Paul Auster
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I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
— John Irving
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My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
— William Boyd
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My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
— Sharon Kay Penman
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Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands,…
— Luanne Rice
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