Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
I don't very often read novels.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
Novels are longer than life.
I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.