Novels Quotes

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

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

Novels are longer than life.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I write novels and other things.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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

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

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

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

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

My novels are all ideas.

My first two novels were very black comedies.

I never even had the time to read novels.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.