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I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. — Barbara Kingsolver

Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all... — Josh Burggraf

You're it for me, Katie. You're my world now. — Faith Sullivan

I understand now, why sometimes, you have to lose happiness to find it again ... — Jennifer J. Hayes

If I'm going down, I'm going down with lipstick on. — Beth Yarnall

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion
the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. — Taylor Caldwell

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks

I want to be the star in your diary" -Shawn, Fade to White — N.L. Churney

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst

Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it. — H.L. Stephens

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be, — Lee Kuan Yew

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. — Evan Hunter

I feel like I'm twenty again. — Elizabeth Horton-Newton

Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill... — Virginia Alison

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting. — Holliday Grainger

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent. — Mary Deal

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially. — John Burnside

When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy — Stephenie Meyer

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. — Larry McMurtry

people who don't know what to title their novels/movies can title them 'where's waldo' and insert waldo (or not, depending on tone) in one scene — Tao Lin

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out. — Catherine Hardwicke

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels. — Thomas Keneally

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways. — Shannon L. Alder

First novels were always at least somewhat autobiographical, — Meg Wolitzer

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books. — Ty Simpkins

It's where my mother hopes to read classic novels again one day when she isn't working nine days a week, — A.S. King

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables. — Richard Whately

Old soldiers never die, they write novels. — James Jones

She loved historical novels in which women dressed as men and outgrew their limited opportunities. And — Nina George

He was a demon who dreamed of a Star..
She was a Star who dreamed of Falling.. — Sarah A. Kenney

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades. — Terry Eagleton

I thought I deserved them, the sort of people you found only in novels. Quick — Jessie Burton

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

His overactive charm poured out like a lone drainage pipe after a flash flood. — Lida Sideris

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels. — Carrie Vaughn

If it's only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody. — Jina Bacarr

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud. — Peter Ackroyd

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern. — Mickey Wyte

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. — Ellen Potter

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that. — Louis Auchincloss

There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise. — Missy Lyons

Dammnnn," Breccan slowly spoke each letter with a grin on his face that spread from ear to ear. "Impressive flames, guy. — Madison Thorne Grey

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. — Kate Adie

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple

Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile.
M.Sullivan — Mike Sullivan

A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her. — Hanna Martine

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention. — Varley O'Connor

God, please God, touch me, inflame me, burn me, drive me insane with desire but don't let go of me, do not let go of me. - GABRIEL - — Chris Lange

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing. — Aminatta Forna

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. — Peter Dinklage

God. He was an eye-gasm if she ever saw one. — Kelly Moran

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

The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image. — Amit Kalantri

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. — Nicholas Sparks

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. — Reid Scott

When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. — Sara Sheridan

Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you. — J.L. Sheppard

Lucas, I never wanted children. I just want to be CEO. I want money, power, and on occasion, sex — Norian F. Love

I've never been much for tears, anyway. — Ed Brubaker

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. — John Sladek

One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. — Barbara Pym

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. — Pete Hamill

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback. — Duane Swierczynski

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. — John Banville

While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true of theories ... — Richard C. Cox

This thing between them, this bond - it wasn't just passion,
and it wasn't wicked.
It was love, and it was divine. — Julia Quinn

You got a lifetime. No more. No less. — Neil Gaiman

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times. — B. Chancellor Burgweger

Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo... — Kim Harrison

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. — Michael Connelly

Cursed is our love, as we long for each other like wounded doves with these feelings we suffocate ... — Heena Jadav Sunil

I could not put your new novel down. At 950 pages and weighing in at over ten lbs. I couldn't even pick the goddamned thing up! — Fred Barnett

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power. — Sarah Hall

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her. — Mary Papas

love either happens or it doesn't; there is no twice, thrice or more to it; it just happens once, only once. — Lucy

The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon — Elizabeth Bowen

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings. — Sebastian Faulks

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me. — Graham Swift

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. — Gabrielle Zevin

I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not. — Julie Garwood

I've died before. It was boring, so I stood up. — Warren Ellis

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. — Virginia Madsen

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. — George Stephen

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

How many novels have moved you to tears, rage, and a resolution to live differently? — Donald Maass

You may run from the calling, but, you will find no real peace until you fulfill your destiny. — Madison Thorne Grey

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper. — Roger Ebert

It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it. — Henry James

Nearly all novels are too long. — Rose Macaulay