#novels

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 asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#ago #asked #because #books #both

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#food #get #i #novels #putting

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’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

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#called #did #hollywood #i #interest

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. ↗

— Kate Carlisle

#men

I want to see the sunrise with you. I want to watch the sunset. I want to make out during a movie. Silly, huh? ↗

— Emma Nichols

#romance-novels #movies

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. ↗

— Laura Malone Elliott

#novels #plays #poetry #reading #music