Novel Quotes · Page 34

“Ah brother, things will be better now. I promise.” Ronan... "Vital Perception”

— D.L. Given

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

— Lois Lowry

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

— John Lanchester

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

— Matthew Vaughn

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

— Zadie Smith

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

— Rob Thomas

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

— James McBride

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of…

— Teju Cole

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels…

— Donald Ray Pollock

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his…

— Elif Batuman

Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to…

— Sarah Vowell

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a…

— Mark Haddon

“Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once…

— Giddens Ko

The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are…

— John Irving

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented…

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events,…

— Joe Walsh

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing…

— Harold Rosenberg

“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything…

— Milan Kundera

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have…

— Elmore Leonard

“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I…

— Julian Barnes

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a…

— Michael Cunningham

The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself…

— Rosa Montero

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake…

— Sydney Smith

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

— Henning Mankell

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

— Mordecai Richler

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

— Julia Quinn

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic…

— Anonymous

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

— Lou Reed

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a…

— James M. Cain

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

“Ethan: “I’m not asking you to continue that night.” Karis: “Then what are you asking?” Ethan: “For a whole new night.”

— Monique DeVere

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the…

— Ben Lerner

Lewis Robinson's first novel, 'Water Dogs,' is stuffed with snow. Open practically any page of this book, and crystals will shake out.

— Anthony Doerr

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the…

— Luanne Rice