Quotes of: Novel Keyword

When the heart is heavy, the hands crave work

The First Rule of Swimming: A Novel

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

V. S. Naipaul

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

Anthony Trollope

But some climbs you have to make alone.

The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

In the Light of What We Know: A Novel

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.

Smelling Herself: A Novel

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

Seven-Inch Vinyl: A Rock and Roll Novel

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

The Poet and the Donkey: A Novel

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

Pandora

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Precipice

I was thinking..." "We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

Unlimited: A Novel

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

Henning Mankell

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

Nicholas Mosley

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

Nicholas Sparks

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

Penelope Lively

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Patton Oswalt

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Patton Oswalt

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

Paullina Simons

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

Sara Shepard

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

Scott Turow

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

T.S. Eliot