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For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didnt outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. - George Stephen Quotes
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I dont know how many a week, in France. I have the impression its carrying along quite well. - Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. - Jonathan Kellerman Quotes
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. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words worth of very necessary experience. - Brian Lumley Quotes
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer. - David Guterson Quotes
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncles, on the dining table. - Patrick White Quotes
People think that because a novels invented, it isnt true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. - Anthony Powell Quotes
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. - Alice Hoffman Quotes
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasnt much time. - Joan Collins Quotes
Well, to be honest I think Im a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. - Eric Brown Quotes
The nineteenth century novels came from a time when there was no television and people had time to read novels in three volumes. - Norman Maccaig Quotes
I dont see novels ending with any real sense of closure. - Michael Ondaatje Quotes
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away. - Anne Tyler Quotes
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 Quotes
I write novels and other things. - Jack L Chalker Quotes
I dont mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. - Mark Haddon Quotes
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. - Scott Turow Quotes
I have tried to celebrate the park, which means so much to so many of us, in The Eye of the Storm and in some of the shorter novels of The Cockatoos. - Patrick White Quotes
Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards. - Neil Gaiman Quotes
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. - Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
All of my novels are democracies. - Amos Oz Quotes
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think Im finished with a theme, Im generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises. - Richard Russo Quotes
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. Id like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse Im too drawn by my own material. - Todd Solondz Quotes
Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years. - George Stephen Quotes
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. - Friedrich Von Schlegel Quotes
I dont know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesnt hurt the book. - Paul Auster Quotes
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. - Joseph Wambaugh Quotes
It was interesting to write directly about what things meant to me. A lot of the art of writing novels is in telling things by implication. - James Ellroy Quotes
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