Novels Quotes

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

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

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

Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.