Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.
Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.