#novels

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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.


Jack L. Chalker


#books #first #money #novels #off

I write novels and other things.


Jack L. Chalker


#i write #novels #other #things #write

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.


Raymond Chandler


#inevitable #law #least #must #mystery

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.


Leslie Fiedler


#between #books #calls #gray #gray area

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.


Leslie Fiedler


#because #bellow #his #knows #me

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.


Harlan Coben


#book #change #crime #crisis #every

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.


Jonathan Coe


#books #i #into #keeping #novels

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.


Jonathan Coe


#accidental #always #attempting #choices #context

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.


Jonathan Coe


#between #choose #conventional #down #i

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.


Leonard Cohen


#i #need #novels #road #stability