Novel Quotes

2432 Novel quotes by 1347 unique authors

Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test… — Dean Karnazes
I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things… — Dean Karnazes
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. — Jess Walter
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter
Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get… — Louis Sachar
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. — Louis Sachar
Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of… — Jay McInerney
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time,… — John Banville
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see… — John Boyne
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there… — Nick Flynn
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about… — Gary Kemp
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel,… — James Lasdun
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe. — Jill McCorkle
Novel writing is solitary work. — Mohsin Hamid
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series… — Mohsin Hamid
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different. — Mohsin Hamid
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer.… — Mohsin Hamid
I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each… — Walter Dean Myers
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. — Vikas Swarup
In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It… — Anthony Jeselnik
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. — Zadie Smith
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote… — Zadie Smith
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount… — Daniel Handler
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers… — Marguerite Blessington

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