Novel Quotes · Page 34

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

— Chris d'Lacey

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

— Michael Ondaatje

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

— Haruki Murakami

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

— Richard Ford

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Anonymous

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

— Chloe Grace Moretz

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”

— Kit Reed

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well.…

— Ahmet Zappa

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something…

— Mark Ravenhill

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and…

— James Rollins

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was…

— John Irving

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to…

— Austin Grossman

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a…

— Brennan Manning

Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin…

— Pat Conroy

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.…

— John Lithgow

The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the…

— Patton Oswalt

Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now.…

— Kyle Lake

From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical…

— Pico Iyer

The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read…

— Paul Harding

I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in…

— Julie Klassen

“If you want a relationship then just say the word baby. You're mine and I'll give you whatever you want.”

— D. Scott

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

— Manuel Puig

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Her friend glanced between Cait and Dante. “But Cait, The Hulk has requested my absence. I believe it best if I cooperate.”

— Abby Niles

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

— Ray Bradbury

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great…

— William Gibson

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

— E. O. Wilson

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps…

— Anthony Trollope

“As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.”

— Rowena Cherry

“Perhaps the whole of life is a continuous interconnecting of miracle, but we don't always realise it.”

— Paul Morris Segal

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

— Dorothy Allison

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

— David Shields

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

— Bryan Talbot

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

— Milan Kundera

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

— Jane Austen

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

— Bruno Tonioli