“All of my novels are democracies.”
“I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.”
“Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.”
“Of all the novels I’ve written, my favorite is ‘Mick Harte Was Here’.”
“I read a lot of detective novels.”
“Fiction novels, that’s my game.”
“I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.”
“I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.”
“I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.”
“I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.”
“All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.”
“Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.”
“A lot of the novels I admire are ‘admirably provincial.’”
“My novels are all ideas.”
“All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”
“Novels are make-believe and play for adults.”
“I like reading romantic novels.”
“Novels are longer than life.”
“I don’t write romance novels.”
“I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.”
“The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.”
“Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy.”
“I’ve read a thousand private-eye novels.”
“I don’t very often read novels.”
“Writing novels is the most exciting.”
“I think of my novels as entertainments.”
“In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.”
“There’s a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.”
“’Pastoralia’ by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.”
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