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I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life

I've never abandoned the novel.

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

Let nothing novel be introduced!

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.