Quotes of: Novel Keyword

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Cat Country : A Satirical Novel of China in the 1930's

My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

Ted Dekker

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be

The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage

I used to be a fool...A stubborn fool. I didn't know enough to stand by my friends. Now I'm just stubborn.

The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

(On period costume posture coaching:) "We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

My Miscellanies

His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen.

Mary and O'Neil: A Novel in Stories

In the context of Lawrence's rejection of the Freudian notion of incest and the close identification between author and character, Sons and Lovers becomes an exercise in deliberate ambiguity.

The Novels of D. H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration

We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.

The Last Storyteller: A Novel of Ireland

For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.

Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets

By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the problem.

The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation

I have received the command from Heaven: May my time be always long and prosperous.

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars