492 Quotes About Novels

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

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

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

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.