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.
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.
But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.
Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
