Novel Quotes

2432 Novel quotes by 1347 unique authors

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans… — John F. Kennedy
Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet… — Ben Bagdikian
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. — Albert Einstein
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be… — Pearl S. Buck
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… — Flannery O'Connor
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story! — Ford Madox Ford
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a… — E. M. Forster
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the… — Mark Twain
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than… — Mark Twain
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put… — William Faulkner
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no… — Paul Theroux
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would… — Unknown Author
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times — Katha Pollitt
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character? — Henry James
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. — E. M. Forster

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