Novel Quotes

2432 Novel quotes by 1347 unique authors

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. — Sydney Pollack
With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write… — Guy Johnson
So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing. — George Stephen
The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a… — William L. Jenkins
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The… — Patrick White
I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me… — Rod Steiger
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. — Peter R. Grant
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. — Jonathan Lethem
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate… — Tobias Wolff
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday… — Amos Oz
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the… — Caleb Cushing
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. — Samuel E. Morison
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical,… — Rose Tremain
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole… — Rose Tremain
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. — Francois Truffaut
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. — Peter Shaffer
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. — William Peter Blatty
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less… — Nicholas Mosley
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if… — Michael Ondaatje
In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize… — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories… — James Rollins
I wrote the worst novel ever. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read… — Adam Johnson
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another… — Barbara Kingsolver
What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be… — Carlos Fuentes

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