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Novel Quotes

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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Erich Maria Remarque

Authors on Novel Quotes: Howard Gordon Jane Smiley Ned Beauman Zadie Smith Haruki Murakami Mohsin Hamid Elizabeth Bowen Amos Oz Milan Kundera Neil Gaiman Nicholas Sparks Michael Ondaatje E. M. Forster David Mitchell William Boyd Ellen Glasgow Manuel Puig John Thomas Sladek John Irving Margaret Atwood Salman Rushdie Jonathan Franzen Anne Tyler May Sarton Julie Klassen J. K. Rowling Chad Harbach Peter Orner Alejandro Zambra Joan Didion Diane Johnson James Ellroy John Scott
2.
I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.
Jhumpa Lahiri

3.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
Novalis

4.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Robert Hughes

5.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
W. Somerset Maugham

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Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.
Stan Lee

7.
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Leslie Fiedler

8.
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
John Steinbeck

9.
You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
Thomas Harris

10.
The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.
Janet Evanovich

11.
The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.
Lewis Baltz

12.
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
Carol Shields

13.
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Gene Wolfe

14.
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
Milan Kundera

15.
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
Danny Orton

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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
Julianna Baggott

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I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.
Philip Hensher

18.
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.
Georges Simenon

19.
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances
Robert E. Lee

20.
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
William Golding

21.
All of my novels are democracies.
Amos Oz

22.
I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.
DMX

23.
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
Johnny Cash

24.
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.
Michael Nesmith

25.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
Ronald Blythe

26.
The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.
Pope Leo I

27.
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
David Berlinski

28.
Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.
Ernest Hemingway

29.
A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.
Paula Fox

30.
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Mo Yan

31.
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.
Willow Smith

32.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson

33.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow

34.
Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
Aidan Chambers

35.
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.
John Thomas Sladek

36.
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
Alfred de Vigny

37.
A novel is a book with a lot of pages.
Kathy Acker

38.
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
Toni Morrison

39.
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
Rebecca West

40.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. Forester

41.
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
Lily King

42.
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Alberto Moravia

43.
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Galileo Galilei

44.
I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'
Jeff Bezos

45.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
James Herbert

46.
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
Patrick Rothfuss

47.
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
Gabrielle Zevin

48.
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
Michael Ondaatje

49.
Let nothing novel be introduced!
Pope Pius XII

50.
Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
Ian Mcewan