Novel Quotes · Page 41

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

— J. K. Rowling

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

— Victoria Glendinning

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

— Rex Stout

My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in…

— Beth Macy

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

— Markus Zusak

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

— George Murray

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels,…

— Terry Southern

Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of…

— Kurt Fuller

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me…

— Chinua Achebe

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you…

— Jay McInerney

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made…

— Ben Affleck

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us…

— D. H. Lawrence

Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a…

— Harry Enfield

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

— Kenneth Oppel

My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,…

— Gustave Flaubert

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Pfft, aren’t you optimistic,” my mouth twists into an ugly grimace as I clench my fists. My throat dries from the rushed…

— Jocelyn White

Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't…

— Dan Bern

Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to…

— James Ellroy

The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive…

— Mikhail Bakhtin

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third…

— Cillian Murphy

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to…

— Will Hobbs

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

— Tom Robbins

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor…

— Damian Lewis

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

— Buchi Emecheta

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

— Joyce Cary

“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”

— Steven Ramirez

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

— George R. R. Martin

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

— Fran Lebowitz

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.

— Gillian Flynn

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say,…

— Sandra Cisneros

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning…

— Virginia Woolf

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

— Thomas Harris

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

— Italo Calvino