Top 1200 Modern Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

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

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

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

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

My novel, 'Kingdom of Scars', is a coming-of-age story.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

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

There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

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

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

I didn't think I could pull off a novel.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

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

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

Someone ought to write a novel about me.

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

A novel, at least for me, cannot be visualized at one time.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

A novel means a new way of doing a story

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

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

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

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

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

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

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

The novel remains a very special form for me.

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.