Novel Quotes

2432 Novel quotes by 1347 unique authors

My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in… — Dav Pilkey
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than… — Philip Pullman
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself… — Roddy Doyle
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a… — James Wolcott
I invented the historical spy novel. — Alan Furst
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. — Alan Furst
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The… — Larry Niven
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love,… — Amos Oz
All of my novels are democracies. — Amos Oz
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never. — Don DeLillo
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that… — Don DeLillo
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. — E. Lockhart
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime — Anne McCaffrey
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there… — Anne McCaffrey
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York… — Terry Brooks
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive… — Akira Kurosawa
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here,… — Al Gore
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot." — Bill Richardson
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. — Mignon McLaughlin
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem… — Thomas A. Edison
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — Kurt Vonnegut
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler

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