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Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

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.