Novels Quotes

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

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

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.

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.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

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.

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.