Novels Quotes
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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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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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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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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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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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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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. They take more plotting and real character development.
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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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When I left the University of Santo Tomas, I had but a smattering of Spanish. My friends made sport of me. What keen mortification did I suffer at my ignorance! One day, no longer able to stand the jeerings of my friends, I made up my mind to learn Spanish. I purchased a dozen good novels and began to read. I did not spend hours over a grammar, but just kept on reading, taking care to remember the idioms. In the meantime my library grew. At the end of three years my knowledge of Spanish and of literature in general was far beyond that of my friends. It was then my turn to laugh!
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I read a lot of detective novels.
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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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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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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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Housework has all along been the business of life; novels have been squeezed into the odd times.
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My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
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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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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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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
