Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Tom T. Hall

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Julianna Baggott

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

Jourdan Dunn

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

Michael Morpurgo

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman Mailer

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

John Crowley

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

Jo Nesbo

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Cheryl Mendelson

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

Emma Donoghue

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Jane Campion

I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

Kari Wahlgren

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

E. O. Wilson

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Fred Allen

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Francois Truffaut

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

Carmen DeSousa

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

C. S. Forester