Top 1200 Modern Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.

I had always secretly wanted to write a novel.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

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

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.

Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.

France lost a great novel last night.

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.