#novels

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It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.


Nicholas Mosley


#always #bad #early #how #me

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.


Nursultan Nazarbayev


#about #being #could #fiction #foundation

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.


Jodi Picoult


#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.


Manuel Puig


#every #i #novels #somebody #something

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.


Manuel Puig


#i #i write #novels #reality #something

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.


Salvatore Quasimodo


#exhausts #his #imitates #men #novels

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.


Nate Ruess


#bass #bass player #ended #even #games

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.


Curtis Sittenfeld


#both #characters #first #i #i am

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?


Arthur Smith


#creating #fiction #hours #how #hundreds

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.


Peter Straub


#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical