Quotes About Novellas

Sumeetha Manikandan is a top bestselling romance author whose novellas 'Perfect Groom' and 'These Lines of Mehendi' have been on the top of Amazon India charts

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.

To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

STAND-ALONE NOVELS The Columbus Affair The Third Secret The Romanov Prophecy The Amber Room CASSIOPEIA VITT NOVELLAS (WITH M. J. ROSE) The Museum of Mysteries The Lake of Learning The House of Long Ago

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame. It's easier to get busted in the bedroom with the faculty chairman's wife than it is to finish that dissertation on the metaphysics of motley in the novellas of Joseph Conrad.

I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages.

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

I love movies like 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' that are based on short novellas.

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

The Big Books of the main series deal with the lives and times of Claire and Jamie Fraser. The shorter novels focus on the adventures of Lord John Grey but intersect with the larger books (The Scottish Prisoner, for example, features both Lord John and Jamie Fraser in a shared story). The novellas all feature people from the main series, including Jamie and/or Claire on occasion. The description below explains which characters appear in which stories