Novels Quotes

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

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

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

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.

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

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.

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

And she did what nobody thought of doing... she consulted Anne.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.- A Tramp Abroad

We are all fools in love

True love is what makes life worth living.

You are the miracle in me. Forever and always, truly, madly, deeply.

On the contrary, I think making you happy should be taken very seriously.

If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony.

I'm not taken and you needn't worry yourself about sharing me because I'm not asking you to. -Aria Cason

We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be...and that was happy.

Have you thought about what will happen when you start living the life that's right for you, instead of the one you promised to live for someone else?

I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say, " I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or later, time will come to collect its toll.

You were too busy chasing unrequited love that you forgot you could be beautiful to someone.

Who needs mail? If it doesn´t come in an Amazon box, I´m not interested.

Among the countless people in the world, two will find each other against all the odds and beat as a single eternal heart.- Not First Love

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

I am an author! To read me is to know me.

When I create characters for the world of others I realize how much I have yet to experience.

Who can stop influenza and tuberculosis? The wealth of high society cannot buy off this evil, for their bored children die alongside everyone else.

You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back.

I don’t know how long we’ve sat here. All I do know is that my heart feels torn in two. Have I been here hours? Or minutes? Heartbreak is timeless".

This is everything I thought I didn't want. Or didn't need. But I'm here now and it's everything I need and the only thing I want.

Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone

Everybody always wants to fix me but I am a beautifully flawed mess.