Novel Quotes · Page 11

“Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It's strength will fade”

— Kerry Reichs

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

— Tom Perrotta

“Tine-ma aici cat vrei,si cand nu ma mai vrei,spune-mi sa ma duc”

— Radu Tudoran

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

— Richard Flanagan

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“He lived like a devil and died like a saint”

— Haidji

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

— Jane Smiley

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

— Patton Oswalt

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I…

— Thomas Mallon

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think…

— Louis Sachar

Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings.

— Jane Chen

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.

— Lisa Lutz

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too…

— Dana Gould

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have…

— Lynn Johnston

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in…

— Edmund White

What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of…

— Kevin Barry

I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at…

— Tim O'Brien

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to…

— Howard Shore

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would…

— Richard K. Morgan

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For…

— Reif Larsen

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:…

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a…

— Kathleen Grissom

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less…

— Richard Wright

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This…

— Brandon Sanderson

For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what…

— Michael Chabon

I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand…

— Benjamin Percy

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding…

— Rachel Joyce

No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But…

— Kamila Shamsie

Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

— Andre Maurois

“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

— Manuel Puig

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

— Toni Cade Bambara

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

— Penelope Lively

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

— Ian Mcewan

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

— Marge Piercy