1.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Erich Maria Remarque
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
6.
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
16.
A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
Julianna Baggott
17.
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
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
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
50.
Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
Ian Mcewan