Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?
In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.
Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).
If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.
The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.
I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.
'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.