Novels Quotes

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 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.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

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.

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

I don't write romance novels.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

Novels are longer than life.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.