Top 1200 Fantasy Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.
You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.
Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.
With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.
Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.
I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.
When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
