Novel Quotes · Page 32

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

— Jill McCorkle

I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

— Cynthia Ozick

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

— Rose Tremain

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a…

— Dan Mangan

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

— Sydney Pollack

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very…

— Milan Kundera

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew…

— Tod Goldberg

I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from…

— Tom King

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient…

— John Gardner

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab…

— Anthony Doerr

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a…

— Richard Matheson

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and…

— Kim Newman

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels,…

— Will Self

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley…

— Terry Pratchett

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes…

— Dean Koontz

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if…

— Art Spiegelman

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity…

— Margot Livesey

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful…

— Karen Armstrong

“Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces. At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic,…

— Milan Kundera

[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in…

— Muriel Spark

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up…

— Glen Duncan

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

— Victoria Glendinning

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

— J. K. Rowling

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

— Diane Duane

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

— Rex Stout

Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

— Michael Helm

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes…

— Alice Mattison

“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.”

— Orhan Pamuk

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And…

— David McCullough

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

— Jo Nesbo

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to.…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down -…

— Dan Chaon

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

— John Maeda

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

— Alastair Reynolds

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

— Kid Rock