Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“I also once heard that if you have enough good ideas for three or four great novels, then what you probably have… — Darren White Copy Share Image
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The… — Norman Lock 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 went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“If AP English via Miss Sweeney had taught Flannery anything, it was that life was brimming with various traumas and tragedies—the great… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid of what others may think. Your creativity belongs to you, your inspiration, your imagination is all yours. Be passionate… — Sheila Renee Parker Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo Copy Share Image
I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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