Novel Quotes · Page 65

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big…

— Charles Stross

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write…

— Bentley Little

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

— Andrew Sean Greer

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

— John Irving

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or…

— Alexander Chee

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

— Nathan Englander

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are…

— Paul Fussell

I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's…

— Joe R. Lansdale

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book.…

— Ryan Reynolds

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but…

— Joan Didion

[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very…

— Milan Kundera

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient…

— John Gardner

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab…

— Anthony Doerr

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew…

— Tod Goldberg

The thing I like so much about short stories is that there isn't as much of an investment of time so I'm…

— Charles de Lint

The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching…

— Emanuel Lasker

The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of…

— Franklin Pierce

I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy…

— Joshua Ferris

If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be…

— Neil Gaiman

I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve…

— Johanna Edwards

I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is…

— Michael Scott

There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination…

— Woody Harrelson

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

— Monica Ali

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

— Stuart Woods

“Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.”

— Andrew Shaffer

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

— Neil Gaiman

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

— Ford Madox Ford

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

— Norman Lock

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

— Flannery O'Connor

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

— Chinua Achebe

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.

— Jed Mercurio

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

— Jose Saramago

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

— Nancy Horan

When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

— Tavi Gevinson

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

— Ronald Blythe

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

I know a lot of people think a cappella is this cutesy, kind of novel thing.

— Kevin Olusola