Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“It is the sex of the novels and not that of their authors that must interest us. All great novels, all true… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid of what others may think. Your creativity belongs to you, your inspiration, your imagination is all yours. Be passionate… — Sheila Renee Parker Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“If AP English via Miss Sweeney had taught Flannery anything, it was that life was brimming with various traumas and tragedies—the great… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo Copy Share Image
I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
