Books Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image ““a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and”” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Writing
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.… — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and… — Denise M. Baran-Unland Copy Share Image
“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
