Novel Quotes · Page 62

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write…

— Helen Dunmore

I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent]…

— Karan Bajaj

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but…

— Gloria Steinem

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not…

— Paulo Coelho

“When you care for someone, you don't ruin their life!”

— Gaelen Foley

I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to…

— Neil Gaiman

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page…

— Junot Diaz

I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I…

— Rose McIver

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It…

— Colum McCann

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

— Gillian Flynn

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

— James Ellroy

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

— Craig Ferguson

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

“I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.”

— Steven Ramirez

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous…

— George Washington

A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and…

— Emily Barton

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

— David Shields

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

— John Irving

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how…

— John Dufresne

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

— Andrea Barrett

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

— Nathan Englander

You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing.…

— Vera Brosgol

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In inventing [General Juan Manuel de] Rosas’ self-justification, I have taken the liberty of drawing almost exclusively on the words of Tony…

— Harry Thompson

Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture,…

— Jessi Klein

“If you love somebody then tell them how you feel dont be scared of their reaction or rejection life is too short.…

— Atul Purohit

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

— Brian Hodge

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

— Kevin Powers

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

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Whenever I’d get howlin’ over something, he’d grab my ass up from wherever I was and head straight for the john. Momma…

— Cole Alpaugh

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My novel, 'Kingdom of Scars', is a coming-of-age story.

— Eoin Macken

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about…

— Kenneth Oppel

“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.”

— Aziz Hamza

I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction…

— Ron Rosenbaum