Novels Quotes
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
Natasha Trethewey -
You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.
Ethan Canin
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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.
Orhan Pamuk -
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."
Edwidge Danticat -
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.
Karen Robards -
Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
Barbara Park -
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.
Alexandre Dumas -
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Uzodinma Iweala -
I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Rachel Kushner -
I read a lot of detective novels.
Caitlin Kittredge -
Housework has all along been the business of life; novels have been squeezed into the odd times.
Ada Cambridge -
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.
Haruki Murakami -
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
Oscar Wilde
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Manuel Puig -
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
Pat Conroy -
'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.
Godfrey Gao -
I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
Rand Paul -
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
Ernst Lubitsch -
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Nicholas Mosley -
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.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time.
Alexandra Kollontai -
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
Oscar Wilde