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Novels are longer than life. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Novels are make-believe and play for adults. -- Mohsin Hamid
Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. -- Ian Mcewan
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people. -- Henning Mankell
Novels allow me to create a whole world. -- Ntozake Shange
Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History. -- A. S. Byatt
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. -- Arundhati Roy
Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint. -- Duane Swierczynski
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself -- Philip Larkin
Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that. -- Louis Auchincloss
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark. -- Rita Mae Brown
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. -- Andrew Davies
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics. -- John Cheever
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. -- Dave Eggers
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. -- Gore Vidal
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. -- Philip Larkin
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot." -- Bill Richardson
Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot. -- Bill Richardson
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. -- Italo Calvino
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. -- Ian Mcewan
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. -- Annie Dillard
Novels are readOr their authors are blue.Support Indie writers:Buy their books, post reviews! -- Cheri Gillard
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. -- William Gibson
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. -- Pam Houston
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. -- Young-Ha Kim
Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story. -- Nicholas Sparks
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. -- Jonathan Dee
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change. -- Maria Semple
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. -- Michael Helm
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. -- Reid Scott
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. -- Doris Lessing
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done. -- John Dufresne
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me. -- John Wesley Harding
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.' -- Bharati Mukherjee
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. -- John Gregory Dunne
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. -- Milan Kundera
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. -- David Mitchell
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. -- Kanye West
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. -- Nicholas Sparks
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. -- Umberto Eco
I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels. -- John Irving
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. -- Johnny Cash
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality. -- Michael Levitt
I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels. -- Kerry Greenwood
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. -- Paulo Coelho
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday. -- Daniel Handler
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. -- Jon Scieszka
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around. -- John Irving
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. -- Sarah MacLean
You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. -- John Irving
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on. -- Khaled Hosseini
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. -- Nate Ruess
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors. -- Vladimir Putin
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. -- Emma Watson
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. -- Joan Didion
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. -- Chris Abani
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. -- Jane Smiley
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile. -- Colm Toibin
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed. -- Ken Follett
All novels are experimental. -- Anthony Burgess
My novels are all ideas. -- Michel Houellebecq
I don't write romance novels. -- Nicholas Sparks
Fiction novels, that's my game. -- David Benioff
Writing novels is the most exciting -- Sidney Sheldon
Southern lawyers don't read novels much. -- Harper Lee
Perfect people make for boring novels. -- hlbalcomb
Writing novels is the most exciting. -- Sidney Sheldon
I write novels and other things. -- Jack L. Chalker
almost all novels are love stories. -- George Sand
All of my novels are democracies. -- Amos Oz
Nearly all novels are too long. -- Rose Macaulay
I don't very often read novels. -- Sidney Poitier
All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. -- Michael Chabon
Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy. -- Sarah Hall
I spend about a year between novels -- Anne Tyler
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity. -- Jane Smiley
Good novels are not written, they're rewritten! -- Michael Crichton
People respect nonfiction but they read novels. -- E. O. Wilson
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. -- Jeanette Winterson
I won't read novels while writing novels. -- Wally Lamb
All great novels are great fairy tales. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Good travel books are novels at heart. -- Jonathan Raban
I think of my novels as entertainments. -- Stephen L. Carter
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels. -- Caprice Bourret
My first two novels were very black comedies. -- Hilary Mantel
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. -- Helen Fisher
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies. -- William Golding
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Most people like a little sex in their novels. -- John Sandford
The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. -- Ross MacDonald
You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically. -- Aisha Tyler
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances -- Robert E. Lee
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... -- Barbara Pym
Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. -- Melvyn Bragg
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. -- Aldous Huxley
I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels. -- Ken Follett
In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. -- George Stephen
I never even had the time to read novels. -- George McGovern
Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. -- Josephus Daniels
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels. -- Patricia Briggs
I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays -- Umberto Eco
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. -- Joseph Joubert
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time. -- Charles Stross
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. -- Kate Mosse
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. -- Candace Bushnell
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it. -- Gene Wolfe
Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable. -- Lorrie Moore
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. -- George Sand

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