Novels Quotes

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

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 found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

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.

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

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

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

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.

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.