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Tag Name "Novels" (831)

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I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
Francoise Sagan
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My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
William Boyd
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I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.
Sophie Kinsella
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As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.
Louis Begley
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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
Oscar Wilde
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In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.
Steve Erickson
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Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
Alasdair Gray
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Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.
Jane Fonda
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... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
Gish Jen
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I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
Denise Mina
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The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.
Nicholas Sparks
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I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
Sandra Brown
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
Ian Mcewan
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I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
Steve Erickson
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Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
Bret Easton Ellis
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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
John le Carre
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
Edward Abbey
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The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.
Dan Chaon
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I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about.
Gabe Polsky
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Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.
Phil Cousineau
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
Umberto Eco
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No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.
Germaine Greer
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
John Thomas Sladek
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