Top 1200 Modern Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

I couldn't pay attention to a novel; I'd get three pages in and couldn't remember what it was about.

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of large government and social benefits and everything and that's against what is my position, because I think that the ultimate vision of Marx, Engels, and those people was to eliminate government entities and to give as much power to the people. And in modern standing that means direct democracy, that means all the power to the communities, it means gradually eliminating all government oppression on the society. And 100 years ago, leftists' major allies were labor unions.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

'The Cauliflower' is not strictly a novel, as Barker says in her indispensable afterword.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.

I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.

If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.