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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story… — Anthony Trollope
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Ed McBain
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery:… — Roberto Calasso
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very… — John M. Ford
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to… — Jane Smiley
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday, — Nelson DeMille
Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD… — Nelson DeMille
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to… — Mordecai Richler
Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within… — Stephanie Perkins
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a… — Sara Gruen
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Unknown Author
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses… — L. Ron Hubbard
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve… — Yukio Mishima
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself — Alice Hoffman
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal… — Alice Hoffman
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography… — Edmund White
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about… — Lawrence Block
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt… — C S Forester
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published — Caroline B. Cooney
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published — Caroline B. Cooney
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything… — Jack L. Chalker
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience… — Zadie Smith

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