#novels

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#i #myself #novels #really #screenplays

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#british #british empire #dealt #empire #england

Writing novels is the most exciting. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#most #novels #writing

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years. ↗

— George Stephen

#just #novels #over #period #were

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels. ↗

— George Stephen

#i #novels #sold #wrote #year

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can. ↗

— Richard Hughes

#barbarity #bit #humanity #into #novels

Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing sentence that, so far as I can see, is not true about a few pictures and statues and pieces of music, short stories and short poems. Whether or not you expect perfection from them, you get it; at least, there is nothing in them that you would want changed. But what Ruskin says is true about novels: anyone who expects perfection from even the greatest novel knows nothing of novels. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#novels #perfection #art

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#characters #comedy #decided #his #human

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#could #directly #emotions #english #express