Novels Quotes
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Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
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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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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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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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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.
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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.
