Novel Quotes · Page 46

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

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

“Ethan: “I’m not asking you to continue that night.” Karis: “Then what are you asking?” Ethan: “For a whole new night.”

— Monique DeVere

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

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

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

— Benjamin Percy

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character…

— Paul Auster

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages,…

— Richard Bausch

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,…

— Martin Amis

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first…

— David Wroblewski

[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the…

— Orson Welles

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their…

— Rick Bragg

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted…

— Janet Evanovich

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base.…

— Alexander Payne

I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. When you encounter people…

— Alex Garland

“No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names…

— Anthony Trollope

I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -…

— Adam Ross

Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world…

— Junot Diaz

I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic…

— Alan Moore

Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or…

— Francisco Goldman

I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one…

— Colum McCann

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my…

— David Eddings

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and…

— Jimenez Lai

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Pete Hamill

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

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

— Martin Amis

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

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Monique Golda Nerman

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

— Janet Evanovich

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

— Howard Jacobson

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

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

— Evelyn Waugh