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All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber

People Strive Evolve About Heal Who Novels

My novels are all ideas. Michel Houellebecq

Ideas Novels

I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written. Michelle Gagnon

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Mike Birbiglia

War Through Crunch Like Boxes Go Goes Toast Dad Novels

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.' Milos Forman

Made Later He Like French Read Years Version Literature Which Us Milan Les Many Novels Professor

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla. Mira Nair

Novels are make-believe and play for adults. Mohsin Hamid

Adult Make-Believe Novels Play

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and E.B. White on another. Camus often features, as do Tolstoy, Borges, Morrison and Manto. Mohsin Hamid

Memory Sometimes Year White Changes Books Mood Tricks Favourite Mention Features Name Occasion Another Am Fitzgerald List Often Depending Might Asked Tolkien Tolstoy Novels Played

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world. Mordecai Richler

Me Writing World Opportunity Seriously Enjoy Gives Take Outside Outside World Journalism Between Obviously Doing Very Move Prefer Novels

I like reading romantic novels. Mrunal Thakur

Reading Like Romantic Novels

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work. Nancy Kress

Work You Down Characters Boring Seem Claustrophobic Put Particular Readers Want Fiction Story Confusing Your Novels Right Number

Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere. Nancy Kress

You Space Background Furniture Characters Atmosphere Given More Gives Develop Parts Leeway Than Short Stories Short Stories Which Much Speaking Even Include Novels Number

I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them. Nancy Werlin

Novels are longer than life. Natalie Clifford Barney

Life Longer Than Novels

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. Nate Ruess

Three Reading Thinking Bass Bass Player Our Spent Hunger Hunger Games Through Picked Written Name Hours Also Halfway Up Ended Loved Them Games Even Novels Whose Level Player

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. Nathalie Sarraute

France Carrying See Week Along Know Dead Well How Heard Impression Quite Often Produced Many Novel Novels

For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away. Natsuo Kirino

I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal. Natsuo Kirino

Age Will Gender Group Books Rather More Only Take Particular Know Foreigners Than May Age Group Convey Appeal Novels Universal

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16. Neil Cross

Science Quality Book Writing Thought Finished Year Beginning Warrior Older Changed Kind Write Until Another Science Fiction End Same Eight Fiction Which Again Title Epic Radically Novels Start

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