Books Quote by Nicholas Mosley

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

— John Burnside

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

— Oscar Wilde

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

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it…

— Matt Haig

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the…

— Lydia Davis

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some…

— Nicholas Mosley

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a…

— Janet Evanovich

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances.…

— Sandra Brown