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But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them. — Mary Ann D'Alto

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

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

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 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

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous. — Haruki Murakami

The smell of beer surrounded him in a cloud as if he'd been doused in Eau de Frat Boy cologne. — B.V. Lawson

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. — Raymond Chandler

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow

Organization takes the fun out of everything. — Kelly Moran

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

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do! — Charles Stross

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green

My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me. — Gabrielle Dubois

I'd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass. — Richelle Mead

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

The algorithms in his hard drive scrambled and his coding short-circuited. Like she'd downloaded a virus right into his system, he got feverishly hot. — Kelly Moran

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

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky

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

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen. — Shannon L. Alder

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

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? — Rebecca West

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows. — Anne Tyler

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails. — Philipp Meyer

I always say too much when I'm talking to you
that's one of the problems ... — Stephenie Meyer

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. — Salman Rushdie

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

A freedom given up is not so easily regained. — Rivera Sun

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose

Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific. — George Orwell

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired. — Tadashi Shoji

Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future. — Sean Best

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. — Bentley Little

The further I go, the more I am confirmed in the idea that systems of metaphysics are for philosophers are what novels are for women. — Voltaire

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. — Kurt Busiek

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments — Yasmin Mogahed

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels. — Greg Iles

You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home! — Latif Mercado

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

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

You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one. — Donna Kauffman

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years. — Paul Auster

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. — Ben Lerner

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

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die. — Pippa DaCosta

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

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives. — Edwidge Danticat

Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone — Mackenzie Crowne

This was the stuff of novels with
yeah
men like him on the cover. — Erin Kellison

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time. — Stephen Marche

When we get there, don't go in huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf. — J.L. Sheppard

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did. — Elin Hilderbrand

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. — Philip Larkin

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

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them. — Steve Erickson

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. — Ernst Lubitsch

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

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock! — Katherine Givens

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

I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away. — Lisa Daily

The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy! — Latif Mercado

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

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout

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

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. — Frank Herbert

The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job. — Kameron Hurley

Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop. — Carmen DeSousa

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

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

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