“I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.” — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.' — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger.… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand,… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They… — William James Copy Share Image
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
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