Novel Quotes · Page 72

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

— Stella Gibbons

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

— Zane Grey

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of…

— John Cheever

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

— Alan Furst

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

— Italo Svevo

“In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).”

— Danny Saunders

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are…

— Maggie Stiefvater

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about…

— Anonymous

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel,…

— David Mamet

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time,…

— J. K. Rowling

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is…

— Paul Di Filippo

The key thing in my becoming a writer was going on a Arvon Foundation residential writing course. I took with me a…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you…

— Nicole Krauss

I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate…

— Elif Batuman

“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for…

— Morra Quatro

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired…

— Lauren Willig

The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is…

— Nick Laird

I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he…

— Susan Sarandon

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly…

— Michael Eric Dyson

A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.…

— Robert J. Shiller

“And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and…

— Basma Salem

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I…

— Julianna Baggott

As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way…

— Greta Gerwig

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

— W. Somerset Maugham

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

— C. S. Forester

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

— Henry Seidel Canby

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't…

— Joseph O'Neill

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

— John Hurt

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

— Louise Brown

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and…

— David Duchovny

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

— Caterina Fake

Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

— Mary McCarthy

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

— Richard Russo

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day…

— Anonymous

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

— Albert Einstein

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

— Wole Soyinka

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.

— Cassandra Clare