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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 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
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
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
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
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
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.
— Carrie Vaughn
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
Dammnnn," Breccan slowly spoke each letter with a grin on his face that spread from ear to ear. "Impressive flames, guy.
— Madison Thorne Grey
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
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
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
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
One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.
— Barbara Pym
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
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
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
You may run from the calling, but, you will find no real peace until you fulfill your destiny.
— Madison Thorne Grey
Nearly all novels are too long.
— Rose Macaulay