Novels Quotes
Novels Quote of the day
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
