Quotes about Novel

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Votes: 4

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel. Votes: 4

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Votes: 4

Novel writing wrecks homes. Votes: 3

Novel writing is solitary work. Votes: 3

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms). Votes: 3

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. Votes: 3

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. Votes: 3

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. Votes: 3

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. Votes: 3

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. Votes: 3

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. Votes: 3

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. Votes: 3

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout. Votes: 2

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. Votes: 2

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel Votes: 2

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. Votes: 2

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Votes: 2

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. Votes: 2

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. Votes: 2

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. Votes: 2

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. Votes: 2

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. Votes: 2

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history. Votes: 2

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. Votes: 2

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. Votes: 2

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. Votes: 2

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain. Votes: 2

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel. Votes: 2

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. Votes: 2

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. Votes: 2

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. Votes: 2

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. Votes: 2

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. Votes: 2

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know. Votes: 2

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. Votes: 2

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. Votes: 2

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better. Votes: 2

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. Votes: 2

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. Votes: 2

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way. Votes: 2

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story. Votes: 2

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. Votes: 2

When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel. Votes: 2

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. Votes: 2

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. Votes: 2

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. Votes: 2

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. Votes: 2

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers. Votes: 2

I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson! Votes: 2

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. Votes: 2

I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time. Votes: 2

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. Votes: 2

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. Votes: 2

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way. Votes: 2

Writing a novel is agony. Votes: 0

The novel is rescued life. Votes: 0

I've never abandoned the novel. Votes: 0

Let nothing novel be introduced! Votes: 0

A good novel editor is invisible. Votes: 0

I invented the historical spy novel. Votes: 0

NOVEL, n. A short story padded... Votes: 0

My medium is prose, not the novel. Votes: 0

France lost a great novel last night. Votes: 0

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. Votes: 0

Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Votes: 0

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists. Votes: 0

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written. Votes: 0

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. Votes: 0

Ideas can come while reading a good novel. Votes: 0

A great novel is worth one thousand films. Votes: 0

A Marxist has never written a good novel. Votes: 0

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel... Votes: 0

A novel is a tricky thing to map. Votes: 0

Facebook is the novel we are all writing Votes: 0

Someone ought to write a novel about me, Votes: 0

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. Votes: 0

I don't write a novel every two years. Votes: 0

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. Votes: 0

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. Votes: 0

Just because it's a novel--can't it also be different? Votes: 0

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. Votes: 0

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel. Votes: 0

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' Votes: 0

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. Votes: 0

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing. Votes: 0

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas. Votes: 0

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel. Votes: 0

Human beings have their great chance in the novel. Votes: 0

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre. Votes: 0

The novel remains a very special form for me. Votes: 0

There's never a false note in a Berg novel. Votes: 0

An old novel has a history of its own. Votes: 0

A novel is a mirror walking down a road Votes: 0

Florida is a great place to set a novel. Votes: 0

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ... Votes: 0

A novel is a performance you have to plan. Votes: 0

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one. Votes: 0

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel. Votes: 0

The fire burns as the novel taught it how. Votes: 0

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. Votes: 0

To be a classic, a novel should be original. Votes: 0

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?" Votes: 0

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth. Votes: 0

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. Votes: 0

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. Votes: 0

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it? Votes: 0

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. Votes: 0

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced. Votes: 0

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. Votes: 0

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't. Votes: 0

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts. Votes: 0

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. Votes: 0

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there. Votes: 0

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. Votes: 0

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. Votes: 0

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt. Votes: 0

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened. Votes: 0

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Votes: 0

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this. Votes: 0

Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising. Votes: 0

What we know about writing the novel is the novel. Votes: 0

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody Votes: 0

Only in a novel are all things given full play. Votes: 0

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays. Votes: 0

I might just write a novel next. I don't know! Votes: 0

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. Votes: 0

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! Votes: 0

When I want to read a novel, I write one. Votes: 0

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel. Votes: 0

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel. Votes: 0

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. Votes: 0

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. Votes: 0

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. Votes: 0

A novel is a book with a lot of pages. Votes: 0

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, Votes: 0

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old. Votes: 0

A novel means a new way of doing a story Votes: 0

The best project is one that asks a novel question. Votes: 0

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel. Votes: 0

Thank you for the overwhelming support to novel. NIRVANA 2020Authors-Suryanarayana&Janaki Votes: 0

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer, Votes: 0

My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands. Votes: 0

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Votes: 0

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. Votes: 0

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience. Votes: 0

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel. Votes: 0

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel. Votes: 0

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero? Votes: 0

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society. Votes: 0

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps. Votes: 0

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Votes: 0

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. Votes: 0

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. Votes: 0

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel. Votes: 0

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. Votes: 0

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all. Votes: 0

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel. Votes: 0

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel Votes: 0

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel. Votes: 0

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. Votes: 0

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel. Votes: 0

History is a novel for which the people is the author. Votes: 0

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape. Votes: 0

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer. Votes: 0

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great. Votes: 0

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. Votes: 0

Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle. Votes: 0

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Votes: 0

Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. Votes: 0

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel. Votes: 0

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. Votes: 0

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. Votes: 0

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. Votes: 0

A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon Votes: 0

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. Votes: 0

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature. Votes: 0

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well. Votes: 0

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster. Votes: 0

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never. Votes: 0

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. Votes: 0

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. Votes: 0

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs. Votes: 0

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. Votes: 0

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel. Votes: 0

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year. Votes: 0

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit. Votes: 0

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. Votes: 0

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written Votes: 0

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. Votes: 0

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character? Votes: 0

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. Votes: 0

I took two years away from making films to write a novel. Votes: 0

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. Votes: 0

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. Votes: 0

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. Votes: 0

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. Votes: 0

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader. Votes: 0

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. Votes: 0

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel. Votes: 0

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. Votes: 0

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral ... Votes: 0

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would. Votes: 0

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film. Votes: 0

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. Votes: 0

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does. Votes: 0

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes. Votes: 0

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas." Votes: 0

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read. Votes: 0

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. Votes: 0

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. Votes: 0

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. Votes: 0

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times Votes: 0

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Votes: 0

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel. Votes: 0

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft ... Votes: 0

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. Votes: 0

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time. Votes: 0

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. Votes: 0

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. Votes: 0

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Votes: 0

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives. Votes: 0

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven. Votes: 0

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. Votes: 0

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. Votes: 0

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way. Votes: 0

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. Votes: 0

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. Votes: 0

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published. Votes: 0

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure. Votes: 0

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. Votes: 0

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. Votes: 0

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. Votes: 0

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short. Votes: 0

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only. Votes: 0

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. Votes: 0

Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions. Votes: 0

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food. Votes: 0

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel. Votes: 0

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. Votes: 0

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel. Votes: 0

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel. Votes: 0

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. Votes: 0

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? Votes: 0

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. Votes: 0

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. Votes: 0

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. Votes: 0

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. Votes: 0

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. Votes: 0

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. Votes: 0

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. Votes: 0

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Votes: 0

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. Votes: 0

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. Votes: 0

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. Votes: 0

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. Votes: 0

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. Votes: 0

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. Votes: 0

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. Votes: 0

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic. Votes: 0

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define. Votes: 0

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. Votes: 0

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. Votes: 0

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. Votes: 0

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define. Votes: 0

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . Votes: 0

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth. Votes: 0

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. Votes: 0

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light. Votes: 0

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel. Votes: 0

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one. Votes: 0

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. Votes: 0

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Votes: 0

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. Votes: 0

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. Votes: 0

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Votes: 0

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Votes: 0

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel Votes: 0

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will! Votes: 0

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct. Votes: 0

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. Votes: 0

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away. Votes: 0

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel. Votes: 0

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock. Votes: 0

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. Votes: 0

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. Votes: 0

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Votes: 0

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel Votes: 0

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired. Votes: 0

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. Votes: 0

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life. Votes: 0

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. Votes: 0

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Votes: 0

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. Votes: 0

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly. Votes: 0

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. Votes: 0

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. Votes: 0

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. Votes: 0

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. Votes: 0

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen. Votes: 0

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Votes: 0

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. Votes: 0

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel. Votes: 0

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Votes: 0

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink. Votes: 0

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; Votes: 0

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. Votes: 0

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. Votes: 0

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. Votes: 0

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. Votes: 0

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel. Votes: 0

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out. Votes: 0

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. Votes: 0

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. Votes: 0

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. Votes: 0

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel. Votes: 0

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. Votes: 0

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. Votes: 0

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. Votes: 0

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. Votes: 0

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it. Votes: 0

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. Votes: 0

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. Votes: 0

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. Votes: 0

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. Votes: 0

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. Votes: 0

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. Votes: 0

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; "the things people don't say. Votes: 0

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. Votes: 0

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. Votes: 0

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. Votes: 0

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. Votes: 0

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. Votes: 0

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. Votes: 0

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. Votes: 0

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter... Votes: 0

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. Votes: 0

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. Votes: 0

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. Votes: 0

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. Votes: 0

A suicide makes a fault in a novel, as suicides make a fault in life. Votes: 0

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. Votes: 0

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. Votes: 0

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. Votes: 0

I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. Votes: 0

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel. Votes: 0

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. Votes: 0

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. Votes: 0

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. Votes: 0

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel. Votes: 0

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Votes: 0

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. Votes: 0

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. Votes: 0

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? Votes: 0

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. Votes: 0

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. Votes: 0

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. Votes: 0

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. Votes: 0

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. Votes: 0

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. Votes: 0

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. Votes: 0

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. Votes: 0

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. Votes: 0

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel. Votes: 0

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. Votes: 0

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair Votes: 0

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. Votes: 0

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They're all parts of yourself. Votes: 0

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Votes: 0

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. Votes: 0

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. Votes: 0

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. Votes: 0

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. Votes: 0

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. Votes: 0

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. Votes: 0

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. Votes: 0

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Votes: 0

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. Votes: 0

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. Votes: 0

Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred. Votes: 0

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. Votes: 0

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. Votes: 0

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind. Votes: 0

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings. Votes: 0

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. Votes: 0

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. Votes: 0

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right. Votes: 0

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story Votes: 0

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. Votes: 0

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. Votes: 0

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. Votes: 0

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do. Votes: 0

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. Votes: 0

In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. Votes: 0

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel. Votes: 0

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. Votes: 0

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. Votes: 0

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. Votes: 0

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Votes: 0

Seminaked men!— Jacky trilled. “With swords,— Kat purred. “It is a romance novel! Votes: 0

Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes. Votes: 0

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be Votes: 0

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Votes: 0

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. Votes: 0

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. Votes: 0

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. Votes: 0

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. Votes: 0

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. Votes: 0

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. Votes: 0

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. Votes: 0

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. Votes: 0

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Votes: 0

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. Votes: 0

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. Votes: 0

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel! Votes: 0

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe. Votes: 0

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel. Votes: 0

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie. Votes: 0

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly? Votes: 0

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. Votes: 0

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end. Votes: 0

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. Votes: 0

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). Votes: 0

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. Votes: 0

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. Votes: 0

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. Votes: 0

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. Votes: 0

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. Votes: 0

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. Votes: 0

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. Votes: 0

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. Votes: 0

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. Votes: 0

My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it. Votes: 0

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. Votes: 0

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. Votes: 0

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse. Votes: 0

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. Votes: 0

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. Votes: 0

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. Votes: 0

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. Votes: 0

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. Votes: 0

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. Votes: 0

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel. Votes: 0

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. Votes: 0

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.' Votes: 0

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. Votes: 0

It's a rare reader who doesn't go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. Votes: 0

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. Votes: 0

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. Votes: 0

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live. Votes: 0

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work. Votes: 0

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. Votes: 0

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. Votes: 0

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, Votes: 0

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. Votes: 0

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. Votes: 0

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing. Votes: 0

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. Votes: 0

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. Votes: 0

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. Votes: 0

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. Votes: 0

It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel. Votes: 0

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven. Votes: 0

If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel. Votes: 0

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel. Votes: 0

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. Votes: 0

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. Votes: 0

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. Votes: 0

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. Votes: 0

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall. Votes: 0

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. Votes: 0

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Votes: 0

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. Votes: 0

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year Votes: 0

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. Votes: 0

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write. Votes: 0

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. Votes: 0

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. Votes: 0

I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in. Votes: 0

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday. Votes: 0

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. Votes: 0

A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be... Votes: 0

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. Votes: 0

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. Votes: 0

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. Votes: 0

"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel. Votes: 0

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour. Votes: 0

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. Votes: 0

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. Votes: 0

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. Votes: 0

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. Votes: 0

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. Votes: 0

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. Votes: 0

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. Votes: 0

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one. Votes: 0

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. Votes: 0