Novel Quotes · Page 208

I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to…

— Nick Petrie

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.…

— John Lithgow

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you…

— Nicole Krauss

I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or…

— Jane Austen

The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a…

— Alex Berenson

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle…

— Neil Gaiman

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express…

— Katie Kitamura

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that…

— Milan Kundera

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as…

— Garret Dillahunt

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed…

— Marjane Satrapi

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

— Dani Shapiro

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

— Dean Koontz

I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative…

— Francisco Goldman

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the…

— Sheri Holman

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;…

— Anna Quindlen

I couldn't be happier to have found a home at Dialogue Books for my debut novel 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius…

— Paterson Joseph

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the…

— Jeffrey Tayler

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice…

— Scott Bradfield

“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87”

— Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY

I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple…

— Donald Ray Pollock