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My Novels Quotes by John Irving
- 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…
- I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
More My Novels Quotes
- Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — 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… — Nicholas Sparks
- I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was… — Jim Harrison
- At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are… — 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… — 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… — Alice Hoffman