Novel Quotes

2432 Novel quotes by 1347 unique authors

Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them… — Unknown Author
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet taken… — Mikhail Bakhtin
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we… — Banksy
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not… — Azar Nafisi
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and… — E. M. Forster
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my… — Jim Harrison
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things;… — Giuseppe Verdi
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to… — Megan Abbott
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald
I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to… — Jeff Kinney
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. — Tracy Kidder
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading… — Cheryl Strayed
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep… — Rosamond Lehmann
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels;… — Barbara Pym
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky
Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising… — Mark Haddon
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. — Jose Bergamin
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented. — John Herschel
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. — Italo Calvino
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. — Umberto Eco

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