#novels

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I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.


John Green


#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.


John Green


#american #because #disease #epic #family

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.


David Guterson


#answer #bury #evade #gives #how

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.


Alice Hoffman


#book #hopefully #i #itself #never

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.


Alice Hoffman


#different #film #films #i #internal

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante


#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist

I think of my novels as entertainments.


Stephen Carter


#i #i think #novels #think

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.


Nicolas Chamfort


#history #love #love is #marriage #more

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.


Mark Haddon


#enjoy #get #i #into #math

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.


Mark Haddon


#contrary #fiction #functions #genre #i