Novels Quotes

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

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

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.