Novels Quotes
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination. Sometimes, as in Amos Tutuola's famous short novels, they directly influence events. More often, as in the works of Chinua Achebe, both living and dead ancestors are sages offering valuable advice.
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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Housework has all along been the business of life; novels have been squeezed into the odd times.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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I read a lot of detective novels.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]
