Every Novel Quotes

23 Every Novel quotes by 21 unique authors

Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can… — Paul Auster
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that… — Arthur David Beaty
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. — Jane Smiley
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an… — Jose Emilio Pacheco
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. — Rose Tremain
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. — Penelope Lively
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of… — Alexander McCall Smith
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation… — Andre Maurois
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are… — Walter Mosley
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about… — Richard Dooling
However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be… — Jonathan Lethem
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians… — Harold Rosenberg
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. — Andre Maurois
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it… — Jose Saramago
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. — Michael Ondaatje
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every… — Tom Clancy
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if… — Michael Ondaatje

Who Wrote These Every Novel Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 Every Novel Quotes as follows: