Novel Quotes

2432 Novel quotes by 1347 unique authors

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality… — Anatole Broyard
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. — Elif Batuman
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research,… — Danah Zohar
The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of… — Unknown Author
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by… — John Granger
Hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings have been made by persons in all walks of life, in all parts of the world. Tens of thousands… — Don Berliner
A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people,… — Gregory Berns
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in… — Unknown Author
The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel. — Unknown Author
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo… — Karin Lowachee
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Unknown Author
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle transcends time and… — Binnie Kirshenbaum
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. — Laila Lalami
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. — Unknown Author
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. — Daphne du Maurier
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I… — Louise Brown
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory;… — Louis D. Brandeis
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. — Gloria Naylor
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are… — John Irving
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears… — Julie Walters
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener.… — Will Oldham
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had… — David Eddings
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability,… — Ambrose Bierce

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