Novel Quotes · Page 3

“You can’t get the blood out.”

— Steven Ramirez

An old novel has a history of its own.

— Alexander Smith

I don't write a novel every two years.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“...the nuclear family went critical...”

— Jim Cherry

“Dude, don’t die out here.”

— Steven Ramirez

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Timebound is her debut novel.”

— Rysa Walker

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

— Richard LaGravenese

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 starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

— Peter James

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

— Haruki Murakami

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

— Sjon

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

— Elizabeth Bowen

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

— John le Carre

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what you love.”

— Santonu Kumar Dhar

“...ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...”

— Margaret Westhaven

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

— Dorothy Parker

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

— Nathan Lowell

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it…

— Vivian Gornick

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we…

— Debra Granik

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date…

— Chris Cleave

Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between…

— David Bezmozgis

Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find…

— Tony Ardizzone

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way…

— Giuseppe Verdi

Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation…

— Colleen Coble

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by…

— George Orwell

“We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body that can’t die for all eternity with no feelings,…

— Stavros and contributors

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a…

— Louise Brown

Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some…

— Alex Garland

For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings…

— Leigh Michaels

Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never…

— Mike Mignola

The difference does not lie in the things that news does that novels do not do, but in the things that novels…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable…

— Milton Babbitt

It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better,…

— Tod Goldberg

If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or…

— Elif Batuman