#novel

I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #paranormal-romance #rose #urban-fantasy #vampire

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. ↗

— Tom Baker

#good #good drama #i #interested #looking

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

#analyzed #anticipated #interest #new #news

Novels are longer than life. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#longer #novels #than

I wrote the worst novel ever. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#i #novel #worst #wrote

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#i #i am #knew #nobody #novel

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

#better #better off #century #couple #ever

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#doing #even #i #i write #long

I think of my novels as entertainments. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#i #i think #novels #think