Quotes About Novels

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.

I am not a fan of books.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.

We'd both already read several novels by Tóibín: The Master and The Story of Night and The Blackwater Lightship.

What's wrong with Barbara Kingsolver?" Eva asked. "She is the embodiment of liberal piety at its most middlebrow and tendentious. Her novels are the beef ribs of fiction.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.