Quotes of: Novel Keyword

Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.

Diana Nyad

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Anne McCaffrey

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

Julian Barnes

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

Bruno Tonioli

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Antony Beevor

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Lev Grossman

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

Jill McCorkle

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Andrew O'Hagan

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

Harlan Coben

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Jonathan Lethem

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

Francine Prose

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Claire Danes

Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel

Carl Henegan

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

Christy Leigh Stewart

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

Jonathan Ames

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

Greg Iles

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

George Stephen

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

Graeme Simsion

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

Henry James