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Novels Quotes

I’m an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn’t matter. Best way in the world to feed your head Picture Quote #1

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels Picture Quote #1

I’m just interested in serialization in fiction. I’m fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I’m interested in ways to bring that back to fiction 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 grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren’t very many bad guys in my novels Picture Quote #1

I’ve written 16 children’s books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad Picture Quote #1

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I’ve written something like 17 novels, which isn’t bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I’m lazy Picture Quote #1

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters’ moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet Picture Quote #1

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That’s why so many bad novels can become good movies, like ‘Jaws’ or ‘The Godfather.’ Picture Quote #1

The most cherished goal in physics, as in bad romance novels, is unification Picture Quote #1

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again Picture Quote #1

I’ve never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel Picture Quote #1

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Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, plays music as well as Metallica writes novels Picture Quote #1

I picked up ‘The Hunger Games’ thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I’ve spent hours reading it, and I’m not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them Picture Quote #1

I’m a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life Picture Quote #1

...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels Picture Quote #1

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I’ve never found parents that interesting Picture Quote #1

Writers begin changing the instant they append ‘The End’ to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities Picture Quote #1

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The novel that’s contemporary in the sense of being wholly ‘of now’ is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the ‘now’ with which they begin will be defunct by the time they’re finished Picture Quote #1

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle’s, on the dining table Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being ‘psycho.’ That’s because multiple things in my books have come true Picture Quote #1

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That’s what I love about being a writer of novels Picture Quote #1

I’m not going to write any more novels. I don’t want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don’t want that Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels Picture Quote #1

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it’s a lot about the outward signs of whatever’s happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you’re let into the backstory Picture Quote #1

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future Picture Quote #1

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels Picture Quote #1

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways Picture Quote #1

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I’m an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn’t matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. (Novels Quotes) It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels. (Novels Quotes) I’m just interested in serialization in fiction. I’m fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I’m interested in ways to bring that back to fiction. (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 grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren’t very many bad guys in my novels. (Novels Quotes) I’ve written 16 children’s books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. (Novels Quotes) I’ve written something like 17 novels, which isn’t bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I’m lazy. (Novels Quotes) Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters’ moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet. (Novels Quotes) The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That’s why so many bad novels can become good movies, like ‘Jaws’ or ‘The Godfather.’ (Novels Quotes) The most cherished goal in physics, as in bad romance novels, is unification (Novels Quotes) I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. (Novels Quotes) I’ve never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel. (Novels Quotes) Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, plays music as well as Metallica writes novels. (Novels Quotes) I picked up ‘The Hunger Games’ thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I’ve spent hours reading it, and I’m not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. (Novels Quotes) I’m a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. (Novels Quotes) ...when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels. (Novels Quotes) Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I’ve never found parents that interesting. (Novels Quotes) Writers begin changing the instant they append ‘The End’ to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities. (Novels Quotes) The novel that’s contemporary in the sense of being wholly ‘of now’ is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the ‘now’ with which they begin will be defunct by the time they’re finished. (Novels Quotes) I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle’s, on the dining table. (Novels Quotes) 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. (Novels Quotes) My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being ‘psycho.’ That’s because multiple things in my books have come true. (Novels Quotes) The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That’s what I love about being a writer of novels. (Novels Quotes) I’m not going to write any more novels. I don’t want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don’t want that. (Novels Quotes) 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. (Novels Quotes) My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels. (Novels Quotes) I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it’s a lot about the outward signs of whatever’s happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you’re let into the backstory. (Novels Quotes) I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future. (Novels Quotes) I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. (Novels Quotes) I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways. (Novels Quotes)

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