Novels Quotes

• I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

  

  Carolyn See
  • Writing
  • Interested
  • Novels

• I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

  

  William Lashner
  • Trust
  • Novels
  • Points

• I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Characters
  • Readers
  • Universal

• I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

  

  Nicholas Royle
  • Style
  • Novels
  • Cinematic

• Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Life
  • Direction
  • Enterprises

• Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

  

  Joyce Carol Oates
  • Writing
  • Novels
  • Dreaming

• Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

  

  Josephus Daniels
  • God
  • Writing
  • Novels

• People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

  

  Nina Bawden
  • Education
  • Part
  • Novels

• 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
  • Happens
  • Consequences
  • Novels

• All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

  

  Aurora Rose Reynolds
  • Fire
  • Read
  • Novels

• I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writer
  • Prove
  • Mainstream

• Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

  

  Jonathan Dee
  • Reader
  • Experiment
  • Novels

• A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Study
  • Novels
  • Scientific

• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Short Story
  • Planting

• 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
  • Time
  • Write
  • Novels

• I freely admit that I took great license in writing 'The Dark Queen,' more so than my other historical romance novels. This is largely because I viewed the book as a fantasy novel as much as an historical. I do feel that writers should strive for as much accuracy as possible but, in the end, remember that we are writing fiction.

  

  Susan Carroll
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Historical

• I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

  

  Raymond E. Feist
  • Historical
  • Novels
  • Imaginary

• 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
  • Media
  • Readers
  • Consumer

• All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • I Believe
  • Critics
  • Realism

• When there’s too much silence, she said, so many ideas come to mind, I don’t pay attention. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Attention
  • Ideas
  • Silence

• Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Manifests

• 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
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Susan Sontag

• The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

  

  Nancy Hale
  • Hand
  • Research
  • Novels

• One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

  

  Nina Bawden
  • Read
  • Novels
  • Old Age

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