Quotes of: Novel Keyword

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Cynthia Ozick

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

J. G. Ballard

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

Edward St Aubyn

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.

Ellie Ann

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Emma Donoghue

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

Ernst Lubitsch

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Bret Easton Ellis

From my novel, "A Twist in Travel:Fate," "What, you've never seen a grown man naked?!

Bobby Simonds

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Bob Woodward

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Candace Bushnell

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

Caroline B. Cooney

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

George Saunders

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Howard Gordon

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Haruki Murakami

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.

Chet Williamson

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

David Morrell

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Denise Mina

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Jeffery Deaver

What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?

Jonathan Dee

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

John Hodgman

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson