#nov

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#books #character #character development #development #harder

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat. ↗

— Max Burns

#cases #class #congress #freshman #freshman class

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#big #chapter #coming #couple #five

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. ↗

— Joyce Carey

#entirely #exceptions #novel #out #points

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on. ↗

— Harry Carey, Jr.

#comfortable #hang #novice #rider #saddle

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. ↗

— Eric Carle

#i #i think #idea #least #novel

But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics. ↗

— Jay Carney

#creativity #economy #effective #engine #going

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#badly #before #being #blue #blue eyes

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#did #done #eliminate #four #good

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#intimate #me #novel #political #scale