Novel Quotes

2432 Novel quotes by 1347 unique authors

Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing… — W. E. B. Du Bois
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever… — Pope Agatho
France lost a great novel last night. — Victor Hugo
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political… — Douglass North
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation"… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of… — Pope Leo XIII
Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives. — Melvyn Bragg
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. — Unknown Author
Novels are longer than life. — Natalie Clifford Barney
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central… — Don DeLillo
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. — Henry James
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at… — Elmore Leonard
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers
Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the… — James Rollins
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions,… — Anthony Burgess
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody… — Sara Maitland
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and… — Margot Livesey
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these… — Margot Livesey
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much… — Kevin Brockmeier
One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk… — Gerald Haslam
Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable… — Gerald Haslam

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