Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

We want books that are written for those of us who doubt everything, who cry over the least little thing, who are startled by the slightest noise.

A Novel Bookstore

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed

Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa

Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide : Five Complete Novels and One Story

We'd been so ... clueless that being in heat is not, by a long shot, the same as being in love, or that being in love is not, by a long shot, the same as loving.

Unreliable: A novel of suspense

Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.

Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions

She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.

The Wild Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Defiant Daughter

Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.

Wisp of a Thing: A Novel of the Tufa

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.

The Water Mage's Daughter: A Novel of Love, Magic and War in Verse

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

The Reformer's Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Peter Straub

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

Peter Temple

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Richard Dawkins

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Lady Gregory