Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I’m trying to be a better gangsta, so I’m learning how to play the ukulele. I'm also trying to figure out how to rap a romance novel, like The Notebook.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

This Book Has No Title

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

Until the End of Time: A Novel

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

We Were Liars

There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

A World of Thieves: A Novel

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go. "Aren't we all?" she said...

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel

You'll be just fine," he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel

Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

Claire Tomalin

Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?

Geraldine Brooks

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thril...

Jo Nesbo

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Jonathan Coe

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

Norman Mailer

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

Nic Pizzolatto

I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

Okky Madasari

I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Piers Anthony