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Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

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

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

Fiction novels, that's my game.

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

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

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

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, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

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

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.

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

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

Good travel books are novels at heart.

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

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

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.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

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

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.

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

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

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.

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

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

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

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 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 a professor who writes novels on Sundays

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 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 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 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.