Best Novels Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.”

“I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.”

“Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.”

“I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.”

“I had novels to write, so I wrote them.”

“I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.”

“People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.”

“I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.”

“Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.”

“I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.”

“When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.”

“My novels are all ideas.”

“The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.”

“I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.”

“Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.”

“The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.”

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

“Novels are longer than life.”

“I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.”

“I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.”

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

“I think of my novels as entertainments.”

“I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.”

“I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.”

“I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.”

“When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.”

“Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.”

“For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.”

“The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.”

“As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.”

“My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.”

“I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.”

“When I write, I get glimpses into future 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.”

“When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.”

“Fiction novels, that's my game.”

“I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.”

“I've read a thousand private-eye novels.”

“A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest.”

“Most people like a little sex in their novels.”

“The point about 'state-of-the-nation' novels is not that they should be about the 'state-of-the-nation', but they should be about people.”

“Novels are a safe way to talk about things.”

“I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.”

“First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.”

“I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.”

“I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.”

“When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'”

“I write novels and other things.”

“I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.”

“I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.”

“I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.”

“I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.”

“I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.”

“Writing novels is the most exciting.”

“There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.”

“I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.”

“I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.”

“All of my novels are democracies.”

“I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.”

“I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.”

“I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.”

“When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.”

“I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.”

“As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.”

“There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.”

“I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.”

“Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.”

“I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.”

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

“The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.”

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

“I'm reading Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan' novels. They are amazing. I feel like she gets the entire experience of being a woman.”

“I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.”

“I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.”

“Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.”

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

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

“I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.”

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

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

“I don't write romance novels.”

“And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.”

“It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.”

“Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.”

“Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.”

“The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.”

“I never even had the time to read novels.”

“I spend about a year between novels.”

“Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.”

“I don't very often read novels.”

“Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.”

“Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.”

“I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.”

“People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.”

“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.”

“I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.”

“I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.”

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

“'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.”

“It's always the miles, not time ...”