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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air. — © Fran Lebowitz
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. — © Tom Wolfe
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.
The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.
Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published
It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.
Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?
I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — © Laurence Housman
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.
I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
Friendships are this fun team. You get to have partners in crime.
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home. — © Geoff Dyer
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.
Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.
It was kind of like, my worst crime was that I was a pop star.
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
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