Top 1200 Modern Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.
England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.
The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.
I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.
The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be.
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.
The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.'
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
I'm writing a novel about a scallywag who is a bit like me.
Unless I was to play an accepted character from a novel, I won't put on a toupee.
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.
The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
You can't sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish.
'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
I steer clear of any novel that gets billed as a 'meditation.'
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.
Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.
