He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force! — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much… — John Scott Copy Share Image
I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about. — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do. — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him.… — Sara Maitland 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 have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The things that will go I to my handbag are laid out on my dressing table. Two packets of pocket tissue, one… — Oyinkan Braithwaite Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a… — Valerie J. Lewis Coleman Copy Share Image
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. — Heinrich Mann Copy Share Image
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
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