Novel Quotes · Page 32

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

— Russ Roberts

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

— Doris Lessing

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

— Meg Cabot

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

— Diane von Furstenberg

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

— Aidan Chambers

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through…

— Oriana Fallaci

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind…

— Robin Hobb

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who…

— Tom Stoppard

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even…

— Elena Ferrante

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in…

— Julia Glass

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy…

— Salvador Dali

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that…

— Alexander Chee

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel…

— Sarah Waters

At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters…

— Neal Stephenson

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer…

— Ernest Hemingway

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our…

— Francois Magendie

Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,…

— Martin Amis

In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before…

— Lucia Puenzo

Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I…

— Harper Lee

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation.…

— Rebecca Miller

“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it…

— Rikki Ducornet

I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a…

— Heywood Broun

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

— Virginia Madsen

Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

— Sophie Dahl

As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

— Robin Furth

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most…

— Glen Duncan

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

— Richard Helms

I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was…

— Prue Leith

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

— Lauren Grodstein

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

— Joseph Heller

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

— Judy Blume

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper…

— Bob Monkhouse

“The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.”

— Ian McEwan

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it…

— Stephenie Meyer

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin…

— Vita Sackville-West

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and…

— Leslie Fiedler

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

— Ned Beauman