Novels Quotes - Page 2

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

Never Let The Roosters Wake You!

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.

Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!