Quotes with novels

  • The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
  • I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
  • I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
  • But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
  • All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
  • Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
  • Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
  • The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
  • I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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  • George Orwell Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Milan Kundera All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Honoré de Balzac All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Anatole Broyard Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Raymond Chandler At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Anthony Trollope But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Wallace Stevens Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bob Mayer First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Sterling I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Gore Vidal I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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