New Novel Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'
— Nick Cave
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One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk…
— Gerald Haslam
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Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the…
— Olaf Tyaransen
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Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write…
— Jeffrey Archer
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I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
— Stephen Collins
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In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous, precise prose brings…
— Margot Livesey
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Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller…
— Percival Everett
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a…
— Phyllis McGinley
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From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel…
— Emile Zola
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I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a…
— Ann Hood
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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent…
— Umberto Eco
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My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.
— Ayelet Waldman
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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
— Italo Calvino
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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the…
— Italo Calvino
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There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a…
— Margaret Drabble
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Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t…
— Umberto Eco
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I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted…
— Zadie Smith
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And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate…
— Tobias Wolff
Who Wrote These New Novel Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 New Novel Quotes as follows: