No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice.… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel. — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living? — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Novel-reading is indeed unusually private, unusually personal, unusually intimate. It doesn’t happen out there, in front of our eyes; it happens in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my favorite literary theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin, wrote that the defining characteristic of the novel is its unprecedented level of "heteroglossia"… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
