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I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I don't write romance novels.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

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.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.

I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

I invented the historical spy novel.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.