#novels

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#building #confidence #constructed #enter #gate

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#masters #novelists #novels #say #spy

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels. ↗

— John Mica

#i #many #novels #read #sometimes

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

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

— Nicholas Mosley

#always #bad #early #how #me

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fortunate #his #lifetime #maybe #novels

Wanita cerdas bisa menghadapi cecunguk mana pun dengan anggun. ↗

— Francisca Todi

#relationship #romance #romance-novels #romantic-comedy #romantic

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#about #being #could #fiction #foundation

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#actually #being #documentaries #documentary #dramas

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#closure #ending #i #novels #real