Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'
'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.
I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.