Novels Quotes

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

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

I think of my novels as entertainments.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

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 would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

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.

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.

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.