#novels

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

— Umberto Eco

#africa #because #books #central #comic

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. ↗

— John M. Ford

#am #different #establishment #evolution #i

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#comes #devil #god #hero #indifferent

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#audience #being #get #live #never

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. ↗

— Kanye West

#just be #novels #people #self-absorbed #sometimes

When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage. And so I did. Sophie Lenon ↗

— Krystal McLean

#broken-heart #dark #hope #lovers #romance

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#early #entirely #good #influence #much

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. ↗

— Alex Winter

#architecture #everywhere #hits #i #lot

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#hated #historical #i #novels