Novels Quotes
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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 can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
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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 . . . 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 ...
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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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I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
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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.
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I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.
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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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I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
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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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Novels allow me to create a whole world.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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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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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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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 always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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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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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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The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
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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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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.
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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 try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
