Novel Quotes · Page 59

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I've always said that 'Twin Peaks,' to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.

— Mark Frost

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel.

— James B. Stewart

I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.

— Julie Klassen

I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in…

— Laura van den Berg

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research…

— Amy Waldman

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe…

— Nicholas Sparks

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And…

— Anne Rice

The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as…

— Willard Fiske

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic…

— John Green

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new…

— Jeffrey Archer

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a…

— Michael Ondaatje

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They…

— David Leavitt

Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a…

— J. K. Rowling

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're…

— Laura Z. Hobson

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I…

— Jon Scieszka

“The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism.…

— E.M. Forster

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period…

— Paul Auster

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and…

— Juliet Asante

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…

— Kenneth Patchen

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

“Whatever happens in a romance novel doesn't always have to stay in one.”

— Renee Alexis

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman ”

— John Fowles

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

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

— James Thayer

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

— Peter Carey

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident…

— Agnes Repplier

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

— Sarah Dessen

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

— Carol Shields

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

— Henry Fielding

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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

— Simon Raymonde

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

— Anne Tyler