Quotes of: Novel Keyword

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

Peter Temple

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

Rick Bragg

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Rita Mae Brown

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Raymond Chandler

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

Robert Gottlieb

I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.

Robert Kazinsky

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

Sebastian Faulks

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Sue Grafton

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

Sophie Hannah

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

Sadie Jones

I can resist anything except temptation." Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Stieg Larsson

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Salman Rushdie

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.

Sidney Sheldon

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

Steven Saylor

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

Sara Sheridan

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

Sara Sheridan

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Thomas Harris

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Ted Rall

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

Tom Robbins