Novel Quotes

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Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,… — Fred Edwords
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but… — Donald A. Norman
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying… — Francine Prose
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — Unknown Author
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start… — George R. R. Martin
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.… — Eudora Welty
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with… — Rob Brezsny
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing… — Lev Grossman
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called… — Chaim Potok
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let… — Jonathan Coe
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film. — Stanley Kubrick
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends;… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at… — Ngaio Marsh
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel — Sara Paretsky
Writing novels is the most exciting — Sidney Sheldon
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking.… — Sidney Sheldon
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. — Sylvia Plath
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of… — Patricia Briggs
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. — Charlaine Harris
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a… — Charlaine Harris
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part… — Carolyn Mackler
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt

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