The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
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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.
Gore Vidal
All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that.
Diana Gabaldon
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De Balzac
He was an extraordinary thinker who helped shape what the modern spy was, both in his work at MI6 and in his novels.
Andrew Lazar
He's making a comment on graphic novels and how women were portrayed in these works [in the '60s and '70s].
Keith Wells
Leslie Kelly was one of our first to be published and now has more than 20 novels to her credit.
Sharon Calvin
I was eighteen or nineteen years old, and I'd get these genius ideas for novels and try to finish then in three or four days without going to sleep.
Philip Levine
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Anne Lamott
I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the "ideas" of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
Will Cuppy
It takes me an hour or so to knock up an article, so if I can't sell it it's no big deal. But with a novel, you're invested, emotionally, materially and in every way, so the stakes are a lot higher. But novels are a lot more fun to write, no doubt about it.
Tilly Bagshawe
Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
Mark Rothko
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
Richard Hughes
The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.
Louis Auchincloss
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
Kurt Vonnegut
When I started reading novels that really charged me or did something to me, that's when I started thinking that maybe I would like to build stories instead of houses.
Michael Connelly
I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.
Bernard Cornwell
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Alex Winter
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Diane Johnson
He would read scores like most of us read novels. Even at the end of his life, when he wasn't conducting any more, he would sit down and read scores without any music going — just hearing the music in his head.
Robert Hanson
People have written novels [on the Psion 5]; it's big enough to at least write documents.
Patricia Miller
Feast of the Goat. It has been like a huge birthday present that this film based on one of my novels, one of the novels I worked hardest on to write, is released on the day of my birthday.
Mario Vargas Llosa
For years, V for Vendetta has been a cornerstone of the growing graphic novel category. Having the movie help drive sales to bestseller levels will continue to attract new readers to graphic novels.
Paul Levitz
We always felt we have male readers who say they don't read our romance novels — but they do.
Marleah Stout
We didn't plan all this — it kind of evolved that way. I write Western novels and do a lot of western music, so we put that kind of a slant on it.
Mike Blakely
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
Dorothy Allison
Sit in their backyard and read trashy novels.
Tracy Koon
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
Buchi Emecheta
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
Ivy Compton burnett
I am devoted to detective novels. They make such a nice change from my work.
Richard Leofric Jackson
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
Ernst Lubitsch
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