#novels

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#age #both #characters #i #i tried

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#earth #end #god #kingdom #novels

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#fiction #hope #i #i think #novels

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. ↗

— John Sladek

#conventional #god #most #nor #novels

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

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. ↗

— John Sladek

#collections #disguised #most #novels #often

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

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. ↗

— George Stephen

#before #had #i #idea #much

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#bruce #data #i #i do #i write

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