Novel Quotes

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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by… — Geraldine Brooks
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people… — Geraldine Brooks
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. — Rita Mae Brown
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in… — Mitch Albom
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
If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear. — Jeb Bush
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. — A. S. Byatt
In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling. — A. S. Byatt
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. — Meg Cabot
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters. — Jane Campion
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it… — Truman Capote
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels… — John le Carre
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really,… — John le Carre
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring… — Angela Carter
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my… — Jimmy Carter
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. — Johnny Cash
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
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. — Nicolas Chamfort
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. — Fred Allen
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. — Raymond Chandler
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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

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