Novel Quotes

Novel writing is solitary work.

— Mohsin Hamid

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

I wrote the worst novel ever.

— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Writing novels is the most exciting

— Sidney Sheldon

“‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.”

— Steven Ramirez

The novel is rescued life.

— Hortense Calisher

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

— Reif Larsen

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

— Sjon

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Vikram Seth

“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”

— Steven Ramirez

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

— Marlee Matlin

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

— Mason Cooley

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine…

— Tony D'Souza

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

— A. S. Byatt

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to…

— Jessica Marais

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

— Steve Bisley

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or…

— Alice Hoffman

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

— Dorothy Garlock

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I…

— Colm Toibin

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some…

— Paul Auster

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane,…

— Anonymous

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem…

— Tobias Wolff

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by…

— George Orwell

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal…

— Sophie Kinsella

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what…

— Claire Danes

Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the…

— Carl Rogers

“When a novel lacks the indefinable, unmistakable thing we call beauty, one looks in it for sound delineation of character, or humour…

— George Orwell

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,…

— Jane McGonigal

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a…

— Julia Glass

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I…

— Amy Bloom

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or…

— Elif Batuman

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’…

— Charles Bukowski

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment…

— Neil Gaiman

Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary…

— Anonymous