Novel Quotes · Page 63

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

— Terry Eagleton

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention…

— Roger Zelazny

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

— Tinsley Mortimer

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of…

— E. M. Forster

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

— Junot Diaz

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner

Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.

— George Pelecanos

One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important…

— Quentin Tarantino

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great…

— Lev Grossman

I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,…

— John Boyne

Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my…

— James Bernard Frost

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the…

— Marjane Satrapi

There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in…

— Khaled Hosseini

I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to…

— Josh Helman

“Whatever’s eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.”…

— Ken Cruickshank

Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something…

— Amrom Harry Katz

The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live…

— Chris Abani

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author…

— Tom Clancy

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then…

— David Bergen

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply…

— Debra Dean

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm…

— Jeffery Deaver

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

— W. H. Auden

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be…

— Chris Pavone

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

— Nathalie Sarraute

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

— Andrew Davies

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

— E. L. Doctorow

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.”

— Steven Ramirez

“Karena bahagia untuk sesuatu yang tidak nyata itu lebih buruk ketimbang membenci kenyataan yang jelas-jelas ada.”

— Anonymous

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

— Jonathan Franzen

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the…

— John McCain

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

— Mordecai Richler

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

— John Irving

“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

— Poppy Z. Brite