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Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much… — Kevin Brockmeier
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names… — Max Shulman
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological… — Philip Hensher
It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever… — Tim Wynne-Jones
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I… — Joan Collins
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human… — Jeremy Northam
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. — Alex Winter
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same… — Dawn French
To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting. — Holliday Grainger
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he… — Sam Lipsyte
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's… — Gina Berriault
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it… — Terry Teachout
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied… — Natalie Zemon Davis
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction… — Unknown Author
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from… — Donna Tartt
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not… — D. H. Lawrence
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many… — Edward Abbey
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a… — James Wolcott
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst
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

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