Great Novel Quotes

22 Great Novel quotes by 20 unique authors

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never… — Julie Burchill
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. — Winston Churchill
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude… — Frank Yerby
France lost a great novel last night. — Victor Hugo
If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't… — John Tesh
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey
A great novel is worth one thousand films. — Oscar Hijuelos
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along. — Lauren F. Winner
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high… — Michael Cunningham
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, ..… — Emma Thompson
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and… — Azar Nafisi
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it… — David Farland
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts… — John Gardner
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a… — Nick Flynn
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. — Julien Green
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there… — Nick Flynn
Things get tough, we all go through storms - especially when building a business from scratch but do not let that stop you! No great… — Tsepiso Makhubedu
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about… — Stephen Rea

Who Wrote These Great Novel Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 22 Great Novel Quotes as follows: