Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
A suicide makes a fault in a novel, as suicides make a fault in life.
I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
I write novels and other things.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.
A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
I don't write a novel every two years.
In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
Most people like a little sex in their novels.
Fiction novels, that's my game.
Old soldiers never die, they write novels.
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
