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You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
— Hanya Yanagihara
You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow; otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant.
— Anthea Syrokou
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
— Young-Ha Kim
Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
Live today. You never know when tomorrow will be a day too late.
— Rochelle Carlton
It's the best thing in the world to save a life, no matter whose it is.
— Mark Fripp Character In Come Find Me
And that was it. That was the moment when everything started to shift. What do you want?
— Stacie Hammond
Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be,
— Lee Kuan Yew
Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE
debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press — Caroline Bock
debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press — Caroline Bock
I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same.
— Kristine Scarrow
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.
— Julian Barnes
Love isn't about holding on. It's about letting go.
— Jacqueline Simon Gunn
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
— Paul Auster
No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.
— Tessa Dare
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.
— Imre Kertesz
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
— Felicia Day
A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.
— Mignon McLaughlin
story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies
— Glen Carter
I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.
— Deb Caletti
Believe that sometimes choices in life aren't always what we WANT. But sometimes, they're what we NEED
— Kathryn Le Veque
The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.
— Cormac McCarthy
Jane's novels are so true to life that even two centuries later they are fresh and funny and, yes, relevant as ever.
— Margaret Sullivan
Life is like a friendship, eventually it will end, by conflict or God's hand"
-Sons In The Clouds — Randy Mitchell
-Sons In The Clouds — Randy Mitchell
Life is made up of strange coincidences," said Thorndyke. "Nobody but a reviewer of novels is ever really surprised at a coincidence.
— R. Austin Freeman
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
— Bharati Mukherjee
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
— Mignon McLaughlin
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
— Scarlett Thomas
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
— Harlan Coben
Only few moments of love has greater value than entire life
— Nitin Yaduvanshi
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.
— Anthony Powell
No matter what luxuries you have or don't have, life is always beautiful when you are around your loved ones!
— Swapna Rajput
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
— Anne Tyler
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
— John Crowley
The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.
— Mylo Carbia
My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.
— Anne Belov
Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling.
— Shannon L. Alder
Have you thought about what will happen when you start living the life that's right for you, instead of the one you promised to live for someone else?
— Tamara Lush
Novels are longer than life.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Novels hadn't interested her for a long time now: not for a moment could she tear her mind away from her own life and concentrate on somebody else.
— Lydia Chukovskaya
When life gives you lemons, find a friend whose life has given them tequila and have a party.
— Nefertiti Faraj
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
— John Grisham
You know what, the moment I see you, first thing that comes to my mind is, I have just wasted 26 years of my life without you...
— Arpit Agrawal
That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope.
— Kathryn Le Veque
All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.
— Michael Robotham
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
— Tammara Webber
She was a book worm she escaped her life and became her novels.
— Tina J. Richardson
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.
— Aurora Rose Reynolds
Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
— Delia J. Colvin
The day my life changed forever ... The day I first saw you.
— Nicholas Sparks
Living is deeper than just life
— Tru Lyfe
You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.
— Elize Amornette
Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life.
— David Mitchell
Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?
— Melina Marchetta
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
— Nina Bawden
My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
— Brian Hodge
Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
— Elin Hilderbrand
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
— Erich Maria Remarque
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
— Salman Rushdie
Novels are written - as life is lived - One Day At A Time.
— Lawrence Block
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Carla had realised there wasn't just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.
— Claire Chilton
Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.
— Carmen DeSousa
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
— Sarah Hall
The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.
— Ayana Mathis
True love is what makes life worth living.
— D.F. Jones
My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.
— Rebecca Solnit
"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing
— Mariam Kobras
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
— Dani Shapiro
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
— Anthony Trollope
My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
— Tom Perrotta
But, after all of the loss I'd had in my life; his loss was the one I could never bear.
— Nicole Gulla
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.
— Stephenie Meyer
Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.
— Raynetta Manees
Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.
— Mira Lyn Kelly
Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.
— Why The Lucky Stiff
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
— Andrew O'Hagan
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
— David Duchovny
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
— M.J. Rose