Novels Quotes
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Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda that might or might not have anything at all to do with reality. But then as now, being a canny and independent-minded consumer of popular media did not bar one from also enjoying being manipulated by it.
Hanne Blank
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Now there's nothing wrong with Booker prize novels - we all have wobbling tables or draughts coming in under the door
Conn Iggulden
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Stieg Larsson
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Anthony Trollope
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I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart, the same that had burst out of my chest in that distant moment when Lila had proposed that we write a story together. It had fallen to me to do it seriously. But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts, which no one would ever do better than me, not even Lila if she had had the opportunity?
Elena Ferrante
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I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.
Nancy Hale
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
Haruki Murakami
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I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Kevin Costner
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I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
Nathan Lowell
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I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
Raymond E. Feist
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I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
Nicholas Royle
