Best Novels Qoutes
956 Novels quotes by 638 unique authors
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that…
— Raj Patel
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn…
— Irvine Welsh
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And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to…
— Julianna Baggott
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After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date…
— Lion Feuchtwanger
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be…
— Steig Larsson
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels…
— Richard Russo
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This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do…
— Thomas Kretschmann
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My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you…
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for…
— Frederick Wiseman
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...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own…
— Pat Conroy
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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
— Peter Straub
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More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
— M.J. Rose
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Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a…
— Charles McGrath
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Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is…
— David Gemmell
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is…
— Ralph Ellison
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
— Haruki Murakami
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People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they…
— Diana Gabaldon
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best…
— Tobias Wolff
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My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
— Ishmael Reed
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Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the…
— Sam Lipsyte
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If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining…
— Ed Kashi
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Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do…
— J C Ryle
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