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In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don’t mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are Picture Quote #1

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life Picture Quote #1

In some ways I’m a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I’ve thought I’d go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that’s not quite me. What’s me is to do it in novels Picture Quote #1

I love reading. I’m very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers Picture Quote #1

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it’s really hard to finish a novel Picture Quote #1

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn’t sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn’t some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it? Picture Quote #1

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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away Picture Quote #1

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form Picture Quote #1

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer Picture Quote #1

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays Picture Quote #1

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters Picture Quote #1

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out Picture Quote #1

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If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand Picture Quote #1

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre Picture Quote #1

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken Picture Quote #1

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research Picture Quote #1

I’ve been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels Picture Quote #1

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it Picture Quote #1

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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law Picture Quote #1

I’m extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners Picture Quote #1

I try to write things that can’t be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you’d actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me Picture Quote #1

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself Picture Quote #1

Music’s always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can’t create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music’s mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I’m writing, but it’s also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music Picture Quote #1

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else’s imagining of my story Picture Quote #1

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If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? Picture Quote #1

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That’s number one. That’s a rule of novels Picture Quote #1

I’m a novelist at heart. How’s that? And that’s how I make my living, is I write novels Picture Quote #1

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original Picture Quote #1

Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness Picture Quote #1

If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades Picture Quote #1

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In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don’t mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are (Novels Quotes) My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life (Novels Quotes) In some ways I’m a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I’ve thought I’d go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that’s not quite me. What’s me is to do it in novels (Novels Quotes) I love reading. I’m very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers (Novels Quotes) When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it’s really hard to finish a novel (Novels Quotes) At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn’t sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn’t some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it? (Novels Quotes) It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away (Novels Quotes) I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form (Novels Quotes) When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer (Novels Quotes) In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays (Novels Quotes) My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters (Novels Quotes) Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out (Novels Quotes) If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand (Novels Quotes) The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre (Novels Quotes) On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken (Novels Quotes) My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research (Novels Quotes) I’ve been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels (Novels Quotes) I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it (Novels Quotes) All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law (Novels Quotes) I’m extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners (Novels Quotes) I try to write things that can’t be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you’d actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me (Novels Quotes) Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself (Novels Quotes) Music’s always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can’t create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music’s mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I’m writing, but it’s also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music (Novels Quotes) Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else’s imagining of my story (Novels Quotes) If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? (Novels Quotes) If you have no conflict, you have no story. That’s number one. That’s a rule of novels (Novels Quotes) I’m a novelist at heart. How’s that? And that’s how I make my living, is I write novels (Novels Quotes) What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original (Novels Quotes) Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness (Novels Quotes) If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades (Novels Quotes)

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