#novels

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

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

#beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be. ↗

— Edmund White

#arbitrary #biography #challenge #did #especially

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love. ↗

— Steve Zahn

#civil #civil war #farm #general #history