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If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."
When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
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.
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.
Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.
I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.
I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.
The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
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 wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation
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.
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
We know romance novels are a huge thing. Can we do a romance novel show on our network? I'm not sure.
Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.
I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'
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.
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.
My novels are always in Kannada because I express myself better in Kannada.
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.
Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
