Best Novels Quotes
956 Novels quotes by 638 unique authors
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I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
— Lou Reed
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt…
— Peter Straub
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She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other…
— Rajneesh
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... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more…
— Gish Jen
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A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.
— Sir Harry Lauder
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because…
— Cyril Connolly
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history…
— J. B. Priestley
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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the…
— Helen Fisher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
— Henry Fielding
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I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are…
— Geoff Dyer
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
— Philip Larkin
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
— Philip Larkin
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
— William Targ
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"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
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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
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Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.
— Melvyn Bragg
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Novels are longer than life.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
— Henry James
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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
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