Novels Quotes
Lauren Oliver
Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
3380 Janet Evanovich
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.
2029 Michel Houellebecq
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
1578 Khaled Hosseini
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
2483 Neil Gaiman
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
4178 Kevin Hood
A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.
3852 Ishmael Reed
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
2969 Flannery O'Connor
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
2827 P.G. Wodehouse
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
2456 Lorrie Moore
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
2471 Terry Pratchett
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.
1950 Raymond Chandler
In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.
2949 Don DeLillo
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
4917 Cory Doctorow
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
3943 Yasunari Kawabata
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die.
1586 Ghassan Kanafani
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.
4844 Don DeLillo
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
2841 Natsume Sōseki
The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.
2355 Sue Monk Kidd
I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.
3768 Mariam Kobras
"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing
4294 E.A. Bucchianeri
If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.
4640 E.A. Bucchianeri
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
4058 W.J. Raymond
A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.
2758 Nikita Dudani
A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.
1489 Nikita Dudani
Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.
4231 Alessandra Torre
The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.
4206 E.A. Bucchianeri
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?
1598 Sara Sheridan
Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.
1535 Sara Sheridan
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
3889 Sara Sheridan
In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it.
1620 Gary Shteyngart
The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.
4384 Eudora Welty
Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.
3627 Walter Dean Myers
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
1332 E.A. Bucchianeri
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
2757 Angeline M. Bishop
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
4679 Angeline M. Bishop
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
4192 Kate Inglis
There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don't lead a story. You follow it.
2906 Albert Camus
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
4208 Nina Ardianti
Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.
2287 Anton Chekhov
Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along, strong and brave in spirit, and gave him an helping hand. That's all very well and plausible in novels, but in life...
Sasha: In life it's the same.
Ivanov: I see you have a fine understanding of life!
3097 E.M. Forster
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
4297 L.M. Elliott
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
3796 Oscar Wilde
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
4150 Lailah Gifty Akita
I would rather be without money than to be without the book I love to read.
2732 Dawn Kohler
If I would have known I was going to leave my job that day to become a writer, I probably would have planned differently... It didn't come by way of illness per se, accident, or dismissal, but by way of sheer self-mutiny. The self I was born to be, decided to hijack the one I had created.
3980 Jerril Thomas Abraham
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.
3495 Jerril Thomas Abraham
Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…
2209 Jerril Thomas Abraham
Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time.
3953 Jerril Thomas Abraham
In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.
4796 Jane Austen
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
1652 Patrick O'Brian
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them-I look upon good novels-as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.
2993 Oscar Wilde
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.
American novels, answered Lord Henry.
3833 E.A. Bucchianeri
I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.
3117 Elin Hilderbrand
Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
4528 Terry A O'Neal
My spirit has been around far longer than my soul-I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.
4379 Latif Mercado
To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!
4741 Latif Mercado
You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!
4664 Latif Mercado
A Decision That Can Change Your Life Forever, Can Happen In Just One Second.
4877 Latif Mercado
Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!
3211 Latif Mercado
The Best Deal Is The One Where Everyone Walks Away Happy!
3732 Django Wexler
Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?
4659 Edwin Muir
The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.
3490 Susanna Clarke
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
4047 Jeanette Winterson
We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box with a pair of pyjamas called Adolf Hitler. The heroine was a piece of string with a knot in it.
4402 Todd M. Brenneman
Sentimentality was used because other political avenues were closed, and authors hoped that through it they could bring about a political change that would fulfill the egalitarian promises of the Revolution. Real political venues were unavailable, so fiction became a medium for authors to appeal to audiences for change.
2880 G.K. Chesterton
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.
2619 Novalis
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
4342 Wilkie Collins
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
2375 Carmen DeSousa
Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.
1232 Novalis
Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.
3149 Theodore Roosevelt
Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.
2792 Sam Savage
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
3691 Muhammad Imran Hasan
I'm Tiny And My Reach Is Limited. I Can Give YOU Only What I Have And Surely When I Give, I Don't Keep Anything For Me. To YOU, It's Nothing Probably As YOU've Got Everything. My Everything Would Be Unnoticed. It Seems Like "A Rain Drop To The Ocean".... (From The Romantic Story "Reflection of The Rainbow")....
4941 Alain Robbe-Grillet
I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.
1225 Patrick White
Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.
2868 Katherine Givens
Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!
1709 Michael Ondaatje
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
4948 Paulo Coelho
The battles may last for a long time, perhaps even years. There are powerful forces on both sides, and the war is important to both armies. It's not a battle of good against evil. It's a war between forces that are fighting for the balance of power, and, when that type of battle begins, it lasts longer than others-because Allah is on both sides.
4434 Rivera Sun
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
1002 Roman Payne
When she was a child,
my love carried a road map in her hand
the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.
4994 Paul Auster
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
2440 Laura Wilkinson
Sometimes we need enemies more than we need friends. Mandy Walker
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