Chtorr Novels Quotes

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. ~ Charlaine Harris

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. ~ John Irving

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. ~ Kate Mosse

[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. ~ Paul Auster

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done. ~ Paul Auster

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. ~ Piers Paul Read

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works. ~ Haruki Murakami

I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way. ~ Dana Spiotta

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they? ~ John Irving

Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody? ~ Damon Galgut

Blood doesn't speak of its owner. ~ Mita Jain

Only Those Who Take Risk, Succeed! ~ Latif Mercado

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition. ~ Richard Dawkins

In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books. ~ Andy Seven

Few people here have any need of novels ~ Yoko Ogawa

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. ~ Nicholson Baker

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history. ~ Novalis

I think of my novels as entertainments. ~ Stephen Carter

I don't very often read novels. ~ Sidney Poitier

All of my novels are democracies. ~ Amos Oz

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. ~ Jeanette Winterson

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain. ~ William Boyd

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable. ~ Lorrie Moore

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels. ~ Mercedes M. Yardley

I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two. ~ Dave Pirner

I never even had the time to read novels. ~ George McGovern

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically. ~ Aisha Tyler

I write novels and other things. ~ Jack L. Chalker

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets. ~ Alessandra Torre

I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real ~ Michael Connelly

In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows. ~ David Mitchell

Pornographic novels were novels about the things primates enjoy most, namely sexual acrobatics. They were taught to feel ashamed of these natural primate impulses so that they would be guilty-furtive-submissive types and easy for the alpha males to manipulate. Those caught reading such novels were called no-good shits, of course. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'. ~ Barbara Demick

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. ~ Gore Vidal

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. ~ Nicholas Mosley

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader. ~ Bob Mayer

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different. ~ Michael Robotham

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels. ~ Clementine Holzinger

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie. ~ Henry James

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'. ~ Barbara Park

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do. ~ Roddy Doyle

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ~ Laurence Housman

I get and read an enormous number of first novels. ~ Richard Russo

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. ~ Peter Dinklage

I read a lot of detective novels. ~ Caitlin Kittredge

Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. ~ Pam Houston

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out. ~ Bruce Boxleitner

You can't write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they're called literary novels. ~ Ken Follett

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. ~ Janet Evanovich

Sir,' said Stephen, 'I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints. ~ Patrick O'Brian

With the right tools, you can write anything ... ~ Jeff Lyons

As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly, these novels help us to develop a deeper understanding of the legacy of women who came before us and the strides made by our ancestors. ~ Mary Pope Osborne

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. ~ George Stephen

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. ~ Rand Paul

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails. ~ Philipp Meyer

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively. ~ Benjamin Percy

I think our refusal to read {some} novels exactly corresponds with..our refusal to confront inconvenient facts of a changing world and our moral culpability in what our government has done in our name . . . While more novels are read than ever before--those are escapist novels--so as to forget what we need to remember. ~ Aleksandar Hemon

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. ~ Jim Harrison

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels. ~ Zooey Deschanel

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way ~ Carl Henegan

Some junk novels were all about airports. Some junk novels were even called things like Airport. Why, then you might ask, was there no airport called Junk Novel? …Junk novels have been around for at least as long as non-junk novels, and airports haven't been around for very long at all. But they both really took off at the same time. Readers of junk novels and people in airports wanted the same thing: escape, and quick transfer from one junk novel to another junk novel and from one airport to another airport. ~ Martin Amis

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. ~ Andrew O'Hagan

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. ~ Jane Smiley

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters. ~ Michael Callahan

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean. ~ Park Chan-wook

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures. ~ Orhan Pamuk

Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. ~ John Cale

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. ~ Paul Auster

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. ~ William Boyd

What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story. ~ David Gerrold

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan. ~ Cory Monteith

Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. ~ Sergio Chejfec

My first two novels were very black comedies. ~ Hilary Mantel

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels. ~ Patricia Briggs

Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy. ~ Sarah Hall

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows. ~ Anne Tyler

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. ~ Michael Chabon

My novels are all ideas. ~ Michel Houellebecq

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. ~ Demetri Martin

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. ~ John O'Hara

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. ~ David Mitchell

A lot of my YA novels are about family problems. ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru! ~ Jeff Lyons

There are two things I am afraid of. One is dying young. The other is Johnny Monroe. ~ Susan Gabriel

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one. ~ Bryan Talbot

The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. ~ Ellen Glasgow

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. ~ Edward St. Aubyn

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels. ~ James Nicoll

A very crude difference between novels and poetry is that novels are about other people and poetry is about yourself. ~ Philip Larkin

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. ~ Janet Evanovich

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. ~ Nicholas Mosley

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. ~ J.K. Rowling

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone. ~ James Sallis

I had novels to write, so I wrote them. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. ~ Northrop Frye