Novel Quotes · Page 37

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

— Benjamin Percy

“The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy”

— Monique Golda Nerman

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

— Pat Conroy

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.

— Michael McMillian

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

— Martin Amis

“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.”

— Pete Hamill

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through.…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all…

— Colum McCann

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so…

— Anonymous

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things…

— Anthony Burgess

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written…

— Lynn Johnston

The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to…

— Carl Hiaasen

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place…

— Sheila Kaye-Smith

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a…

— Henry Miller

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the…

— Anne-Marie Duff

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very…

— Samantha Shannon

The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was…

— Anthony Marra

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that…

— Lauren Willig

Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front…

— Elizabeth George

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good…

— Anne Lamott

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked…

— Haruki Murakami

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill…

— Stephen Harrigan

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

— David Nicholls

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst

“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved…

— Priya Ardis

Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'

— Howard Jacobson

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

— Janet Evanovich

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is…

— Steven Spielberg

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana.”

— Judith Krantz

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

— Helen Dunmore

What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?

— Jonathan Dee

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

— Rob Thomas

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

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

— James McBride

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

— Zadie Smith