#novel

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#black #black hole #everything #hole #love

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

#novelist #temperament

Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone. ↗

— Natalie Ansard

#love-novel #love-story #beauty

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#being #game #i #machines #novel

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#concludes #detective #entire #novel #run

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#fashionable #few #i #ladies #last

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#i #nothing #novel #offer #revolutionary

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#always #bad #early #how #me

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

#fall #first #going #hbo #i

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. ↗

— George Murray

#just #novel #occasional #once #poked