Novels Quotes · Page 8

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

— Amitava Kumar

“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.”

— Shannon L. Alder

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

— Michel Faber

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

— Pat Conroy

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!”

— Katherine Givens

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

— Eden Robinson

I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.

— Robert Kazinsky

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When…

— Paul Auster

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The…

— Samantha Hunt

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

— Octavia E. Butler

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring…

— Jennifer Egan

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives…

— Gore Vidal

“There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody…

— Aminatta Forna

“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the…

— Dean Koontz

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase.…

— Paul Di Filippo

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger.…

— Lisa Unger

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry…

— Doris Lessing

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…

— Rainn Wilson

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who…

— Alison Weir

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity.…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:…

— Roman Payne

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

— Peter Dinklage

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

— Matthew Nable

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

— Gore Vidal

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

— Ross Macdonald

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

— Sarah Waters

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

— Northrop Frye

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

— Gillian Flynn

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

— Leonard Cohen

“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”

— Robert Galbraith

“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.”

— Thomas Keneally

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit