Top 1200 Jane Austen Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

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

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

You look at that Democratic debate. I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean, in one week, he went from saying he is going to sit down for tea with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies. I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.

The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody

I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.'

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery.

I don't write a novel every two years.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

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

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Every second counts. We are only on this earth for a short amount of time, and we get to decide how we want to use that time. And if one thinks that the purpose of life is to leave the world in just a little bit better place than we found it, it's hard to think of anyone who has contributed more than Jane Goodall.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can get into. Teach me Australian Hip-Hop culture. Don't come to America and try to convince me that you're Gangsta Boo...We're not going to believe you if you're trying to convince us that you're out here trap shooting.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.