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Novels Quotes

The truly great books are always novels: ‘Anna Karenina,’ ‘The Brothers Karamazov,’ ‘The Magic Mountain.’ Just as with ‘Shahnameh,’ I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University Picture Quote #1

You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there’s much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money Picture Quote #1

There are two kinds of sculptures. There’s the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on Picture Quote #1

I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That’s just inspiration: not business Picture Quote #1

I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don’t have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop! Picture Quote #1

[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of Picture Quote #1

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My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars’ production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for ‘Admission,’ my fourth novel Picture Quote #1

I can’t change the past, and I don’t think I would. I don’t expect to be understood. I like what I’ve written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I’ve written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn’t do it Picture Quote #1

Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He’s co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age Picture Quote #1

The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ recently published by Penguin, was voted ‘Time Magazine’’s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith Picture Quote #1

In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander Picture Quote #1

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

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If you read novels of the 19th century, they’re pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You’ve got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like ‘Tristram Shandy’ or ‘Don Quixote’ Picture Quote #1

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it’s necessary for the characters to change Picture Quote #1

As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It’s because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it’s been proven that that’s not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that’s actually changing people. So in that sense, it’s become a theme in Japanese culture Picture Quote #1

For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently Picture Quote #1

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don’t wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it’s the greatest art Picture Quote #1

There is nothing that’s been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I’ve witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on Picture Quote #1

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it’s not strange that the main characters of my novels are females Picture Quote #1

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault Picture Quote #1

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I’m not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education Picture Quote #1

You’ll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage Picture Quote #1

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I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa Picture Quote #1

I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That’s how you grow up to be a thriller writer Picture Quote #1

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author’s notes to keep my conscience clear Picture Quote #1

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person’s mind and have an atmosphere about them Picture Quote #1

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color Picture Quote #1

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I’m not a comic book guy, as much Picture Quote #1

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The truly great books are always novels: ‘Anna Karenina,’ ‘The Brothers Karamazov,’ ‘The Magic Mountain.’ Just as with ‘Shahnameh,’ I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University. (Novels Quotes) You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there’s much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money. (Novels Quotes) There are two kinds of sculptures. There’s the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. (Novels Quotes) I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That’s just inspiration: not business. (Novels Quotes) I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don’t have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop! (Novels Quotes) [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of. (Novels Quotes) My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars’ production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for ‘Admission,’ my fourth novel. (Novels Quotes) I can’t change the past, and I don’t think I would. I don’t expect to be understood. I like what I’ve written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I’ve written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn’t do it. (Novels Quotes) Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He’s co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age. (Novels Quotes) The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ recently published by Penguin, was voted ‘Time Magazine’’s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. (Novels Quotes) In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander. (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) If you read novels of the 19th century, they’re pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You’ve got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like ‘Tristram Shandy’ or ‘Don Quixote’. (Novels Quotes) Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it’s necessary for the characters to change. (Novels Quotes) As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It’s because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it’s been proven that that’s not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that’s actually changing people. So in that sense, it’s become a theme in Japanese culture. (Novels Quotes) For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently. (Novels Quotes) The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don’t wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it’s the greatest art. (Novels Quotes) There is nothing that’s been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. (Novels Quotes) 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. (Novels Quotes) My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I’ve witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on. (Novels Quotes) My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it’s not strange that the main characters of my novels are females. (Novels Quotes) Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault. (Novels Quotes) I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I’m not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education. (Novels Quotes) You’ll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage. (Novels Quotes) I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. (Novels Quotes) I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That’s how you grow up to be a thriller writer. (Novels Quotes) I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author’s notes to keep my conscience clear. (Novels Quotes) I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person’s mind and have an atmosphere about them. (Novels Quotes) I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color. (Novels Quotes) I read graphic novels, here and there, but I’m not a comic book guy, as much (Novels Quotes)

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