#novels

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#great #novels #true

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#fury #happen #life #novels #real

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!' ↗

— Harlan Coben

#because #box #buy #call #even

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#eight #i #none #novels #published

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

— Kanye West

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

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

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fiction writer #i #i write #novels #preacher

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#blueprints #ever #expect #get #guess

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#going #graphic #graphic novels #i #illustrated