Novels Quotes
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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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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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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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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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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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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite 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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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 read a lot of detective novels.
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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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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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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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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
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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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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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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 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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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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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.
