#novels

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. ↗

— John Green

#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#enjoy #get #i #into #math

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#contrary #fiction #functions #genre #i

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #five #i #latter

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 try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#i #in print #keep #me #novels

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist