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Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I admire in that style tend to do omniscient narration.
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers don't have to write novels anymore.
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.
I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.
When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled as an author the literary establishment is free to dismiss.
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure.
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!
I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine.
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.
If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.
The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I want to write, it's the only approach that makes sense to me.
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.
