Novels Quotes
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel. This book harkens the arrival of a major new voice.
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.
I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
Im a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play World of Warcraft, Im a massive gamer, I have Star Trek outfits.
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.
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.
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.
His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.
Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.
Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.