Quotes of: Novel Keyword

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

Joanne Froggatt

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Noah Baumbach

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Taylor Caldwell

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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

Sloane Crosley

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

A. N. Wilson

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

Alice Hoffman

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Kevin Powers

Life is God's Novel. Let Him write it. -Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life

I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.

Wong Kar-wai

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

Wole Soyinka

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Gloria Naylor

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

Fred Hammond

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened....

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the head and some with the headless body. Let them look for ea...

Death of the Fox: A Novel of Elizabeth and Ralegh

And when I had finished painting & looked at that poor leatherjacket which now lay dead on the table I began to wonder whether, as each fish died, the world was reduced in the amount of love that you might know for such a creature. Whether there was ...

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and tu...

Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, a...

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. Th...

The Book of Disquiet