#novels

God, please God, touch me, inflame me, burn me, drive me insane with desire but don't let go of me, do not let go of me. - GABRIEL - ↗

— Chris Lange

#romance-novels #vampire-romance #romance-novels

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#gender #humor #masculinity #romance #romance-novels

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

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 read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. ↗

— Rand Paul

#i #novels #rand #read

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#novels #reader #stick #teeth

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#better #i #knew #my own #name

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ↗