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956 Novels quotes by 638 unique authors
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It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ...…
— Clay Shirky
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I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
— Matthew Vaughn
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Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to…
— Judith Krantz
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In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an…
— Isabel Colegate
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I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
— Heather Donahue
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We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense…
— John Dufresne
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Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty…
— Stefan Petrucha
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If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in…
— John Kendrick Bangs
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Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.
— Louis Auchincloss
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My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,
— Greg Iles
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I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both…
— Stanley Crouch
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In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to ask, I said.…
— Anatole Broyard
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
— Anatole Broyard
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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
— E. V. Lucas
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We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
— Gabrielle Zevin
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
— Anne Tyler
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I spend about a year between novels
— Anne Tyler
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
— Anne Tyler
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
— Anne Tyler
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Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The…
— Diane Chamberlain
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Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long…
— David Leavitt
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I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
— Denis Johnson
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor…
— Anthony Trollope
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a…
— Rob Brezsny
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