Quotes About Novels

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I write novels and other things.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

I don't write romance novels.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

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

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.