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- As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,… — Julie Burchill
- I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out… — Winston Churchill
- It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Michael Cunningham
- A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel
- I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting… — Emma Thompson
- The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. — Andre Maurois