Quotes of: Novel Keyword

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Benjamin Disraeli

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

Simon Schama

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

A. N. Wilson

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Louise Brown

I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.

Craig Thompson

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

John Sladek

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

Henry James

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

Frank Ocean

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

Daniel Woodrell

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

E.M. Forster

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

Barbara Park

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Harlan Ellison

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

James Merrill

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Jim Rohn

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Jane Smiley

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

Doris Lessing

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

Daphne du Maurier

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

Joan Didion

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

James Frain

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

Nathalie Sarraute