Scalzi Novels Quotes

#1. Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do. #Quote by Tamora Pierce

#2. I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there. #Quote by Kent Haruf

#3. I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. #Quote by Harold Brodkey

#4. He has no interest in comics. He doesn't understand the difference between serious graphic novels and Saturday-morning cartoons with wide-eyed tweetybirds and floppy-limbed cats. #Quote by Emily St. John Mandel

#5. The loss, the harshness, the unpredictability of the Australian country. Can I deal with this? Maybe only with Aiden by my side. What would that life be like? The pleasure, the satisfaction, the love. #Quote by Stella Knights

#6. Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age. #Quote by Tim Harford

#7. I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle. #Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

#8. Just so surely as we tend to disintegrate these nuclei of nationalistic culture do we tend to create hordes of men and women without a spiritual country, cultural outlaws, without taste, without standards but those of the mob. We sentence them to live on the most rudimentary planes of American life. The influences at the centre of the nuclei are centripetal. They make for the intelligence and the social values which mean an enhancement of life. And just because the foreign-born retains this expressiveness is he likely to be a better citizen of the American community. The influences at the fringe, however, are centrifugal, anarchical. They make for detached fragments of peoples. Those who came to find liberty achieve only license. They become the flotsam and jetsam of American life, the downward undertow of our civilization with its leering cheapness and falseness of taste and spiritual outlook, the absence of mind and sincere feeling which we see in our slovenly towns, our vapid moving pictures, our popular novels, and in the vacuous faces of the crowds on the city street. This is the cultural wreckage of our time, and it is from the fringes of the Anglo-Saxon as well as the other stocks that it falls. America has as yet no impelling integrating force. It makes too easily for this detritus of cultures. In our loose, free country, no constraining national purpose, no tenacious folk-tradition and folk-style hold the people to a line. #Quote by Randolph Bourne

#9. Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results. #Quote by John Scalzi

#10. Was it possible to love more than one person at the same time? I had always thought it just kind of a convenient notion that authors of novels and screen plays used to amp up intrigue in their stories. I could remember more than a few times while reading a book or watching a movie, I had laughed and rolled my eyes at the heroine for finding herself in such a situation. And yet . . . here I was . . . #Quote by D.T. Dyllin

#11. Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances #Quote by Robert E.Lee

#12. Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. #Quote by Siri Hustvedt

#13. I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. #Quote by Cheryl Mendelson

#14. Honestly...this is why I write.
I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.
I write for my sanity. #Quote by Debora Dennis

#15. My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished. #Quote by Alexander Chee

#16. I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. #Quote by Jay McInerney

#17. If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot. #Quote by Mark Billingham

#18. Do the women in my novels get what they want? Yes. Yes, they do, dammit. #Quote by Julie Strauss

#19. I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. #Quote by Donna Tartt

#20. The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too. #Quote by Nicholas Sparks

#21. startling! such determination in the
dull and uninspired
and the copyists.
they never lose the fierce gratitude
for their uneventfulness,
nor do they forget to laugh
at the wit of slugs;
as a study in diluted senses
they'd make any pharaoh
cough up his beans;
in music they prefer the monotony of
dripping faucets;
in love and sex they prefer each other
and therefore compound the
problem;
the energy with which they propel their
uselessness
(without any self-doubt)
toward worthless goals
is as magnificent as
cow shit.
they produce novels, children, death,
freeways, cities, wars, wealth, poverty, politicians
and total areas of grandiose waste;
it's as if the whole world is wrapped in dirty
bandages.

it's best to take walks late at
night.
it's best to do your business only on
Mondays and
Tuesdays.

it's best to sit in a small room
with the shades down
and
wait.

the strongest men are the fewest
and the strongest women die alone
too. #Quote by Charles Bukowski

#22. I tell you I want the room to look like a place I remember from Uni and immediately you think I'm a wizard? #Quote by Magan Vernon

#23. Remember that the plant wants to eat you," the groundskeeper said. "It's not going to let you get away. Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful, #Quote by John Scalzi

#24. The world is perfect, with all its imperfections. #Quote by Sahara Sanders

#25. Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education… #Quote by Kate Atkinson

#26. I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels #Quote by Fanny Lee Savage

#27. Don't look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, and films. #Quote by Girdhar Joshi

#28. I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche. #Quote by John Scalzi

#29. Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel. #Quote by Colson Whitehead

#30. I'll stick close to Sandy. I swear that woman isn't afraid of anything or anybody." Baldric gave Ralph a rare smile and winked. #Quote by D.F. Jones

#31. I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do. #Quote by Robin Hobb

#32. Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science. #Quote by John Scalzi