Novel Quotes · Page 5

“Come on, dream...' he dreamed.”

— Karl Kristian Flores

“This is not a Nora Roberts novel.”

— Neal Stephenson

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

— Harper Lee

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

— Jarvis Cocker

I didn't think I could pull off a novel.

— Shane Dawson

Let nothing novel be introduced!

— Pope Pius XII

“A riverless silence made the air heavy.”

— Steven Ramirez

Writing a novel is agony.

— George Orwell

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

“Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?”

— Steven Ramirez

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

— Ellen Glasgow

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

— Kenzaburo Oe

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

— Donna Tartt

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

— Margaret Atwood

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big.…

— Adora Svitak

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have…

— Salman Rushdie

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own…

— Amy Bloom

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by…

— Ernest Gaines

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”

— Priya Ardis

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

— Anonymous

I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain…

— Jeff Kinney

When parents want you to do really well academically, they want to avoid you getting into anything that would distract you -…

— Jenova Chen

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is…

— Umberto Eco

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a…

— John Fante

Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are…

— Kenzaburo Oe

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem…

— Fernando Pessoa

The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is…

— Lucia Puenzo

In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and…

— Margot Livesey

The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of…

— Ayad Akhtar

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,…

— Anne Rice

In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.…

— Joe Meno

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to…

— Frederick Buechner

Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the…

— Amos Oz

I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents…

— Sara Paretsky