Novels Quotes
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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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.
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Novels allow me to create a whole world.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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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.
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I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
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Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.
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You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
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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.
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I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.
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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.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
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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.
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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.
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I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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1922 was a bad year for Elizabeth. She was disappointed by some of the reviews of The Enchanted April although it was to prove the most popular — excepting the first — of all her novels. She suffered from depressions that she couldn’t throw off. Her doctor diagnosed menopausal symptoms.
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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
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I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
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Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.
