Novel Quotes · Page 38

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

— Julia Quinn

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic…

— Anonymous

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

— Lou Reed

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

— Henning Mankell

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

— Mordecai Richler

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

— Lois Lowry

“Ah brother, things will be better now. I promise.” Ronan... "Vital Perception”

— D.L. Given

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

— James N. Frey

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of…

— Don Winslow

I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are…

— Haruki Murakami

And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him…

— George Gissing

I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert…

— Simon Rich

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating…

— Stephen Chbosky

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe…

— Don DeLillo

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is…

— Joseph O'Neill

The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.…

— Helen Humphreys

I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books…

— Lawrence Joseph

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very…

— Carl Hiaasen

It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's…

— Paul Di Filippo

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far…

— J.D. Salinger

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens…

— Dave Barry

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop…

— Etgar Keret

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love…

— Robert Greene

“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this…

— E.M. Forster

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

— Matthew Vaughn

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

— John Lanchester

Lewis Robinson's first novel, 'Water Dogs,' is stuffed with snow. Open practically any page of this book, and crystals will shake out.

— Anthony Doerr

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”

— Neil Gaiman

The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the…

— Ben Lerner

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

— John Green

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the…

— Luanne Rice

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small…

— Dustin Clare

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster…

— Ann Patchett

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

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros