Best Good Novel Quotes

44 Good Novel quotes by 38 unique authors

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
Good novel are written by people who are not frightened. — George Orwell
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on… — John Gardner
When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this… — Azar Nafisi
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one. — Paula Fox
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images. — Albert Camus
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me,… — Gary Krist
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do… — Shane Carruth
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. — Guy Gavriel Kay
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me… — Elizabeth George
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a… — James Humes
Listen closely. Theres a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I dont give a damn if my work is commercial or notIm the… — John Fante

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