This collection holds 1,031 novel quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Rachel Kushner, Michel Houellebecq and George Orwell.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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A novel is not a rant.

My novels are all ideas.

Writing a novel is agony.

All novels are experimental.

Novels are longer than life.

I don't write romance novels.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Novel writing is solitary work.

Nearly all novels are too long.

I've never abandoned the novel.

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

I write novels and other things.

Let nothing novel be introduced!

All of my novels are democracies.

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

A good novel editor is invisible.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

I spend about a year between novels

almost all novels are love stories.

Writing novels is the most exciting

I invented the historical spy novel.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

An old novel has a history of its own.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

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

They say great themes make great novels

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

I think of my novels as entertainments.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

Someone ought to write a novel about me.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Facebook is the novel we are all writing

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

I won't read novels while writing novels.

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

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

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

The novel remains a very special form for me.

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