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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is.… — Harlan Coben
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be… — Harlan Coben
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. — Harlan Coben
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. — Harlan Coben
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about… — Piers Anthony
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of… — Piers Anthony
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy… — Piers Anthony
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories… — Unknown Author
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting… — Keith Green
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain… — William James
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in… — H.G. Wells
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind… — Edward Abbey
Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. — Rita Mae Brown
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. — Jim Rohn
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer… — Joseph Conrad
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong. — Lou Reed
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt… — Peter Straub
NOVEL, n. A short story padded... — Ambrose Bierce

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