Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel
If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.
I guess it’s true: it’s difficult for men to understand women.
There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.
A novel is a tricky thing to map.
... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.
Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?
One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.
There's a great deal of power in pretending.
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
