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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.
I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.
I'm a big fan of superheroes and fantasy and sci-fi. I have been since I was a child.
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest.
Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.
My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between.
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
