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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime — Anne McCaffrey
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot." — Bill Richardson
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. — Mignon McLaughlin
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — Kurt Vonnegut
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality… — Anatole Broyard
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research,… — Danah Zohar
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by… — John Granger
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in… — Unknown Author
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Unknown Author
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. — Laila Lalami
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I… — Louise Brown
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are… — John Irving
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — Unknown Author
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with… — Rob Brezsny
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing… — Lev Grossman
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let… — Jonathan Coe
Writing novels is the most exciting — Sidney Sheldon
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. — Charlaine Harris
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a… — Charlaine Harris

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