Quotes of: Novel Keyword

What branch do you want to go in?” “I don’ give a god-damn,” said Pilon jauntily. “I guess we need men like you in the infantry.” And Pilon was written so. He turned then to Big Joe, and the Portagee was getting sober. “Where do you wan...

The Short Novels: Tortilla Flat / The Moon is Down / The Red Pony / Of Mice and Men / Cannery Row / The Pearl

As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly fo...

The Short Novels: Tortilla Flat / The Moon is Down / The Red Pony / Of Mice and Men / Cannery Row / The Pearl

The setting, concerns, and mood of The Woodlanders are consonant with the Wessex of the earlier novels. There is an element of nostalgia in Hardy’s treatment of the woodlands of Little Hintock. Although such rural economies were very much alive in ...

Thomas Hardy

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, streams, precipices, and slides, and as he walks t...

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Whether he chooses a 'scholarly' or a 'popular' edition the modern reader is likely to have his judgement influenced in advance. Almost invariably he will be offered an assisted passage. Footnotes, Forewords, Afterwords serve notice that a given text...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form

Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn ...

Pat Conroy

The curious fact is that biology tells us nothing about desire. And, when you think about it, culture -- novels, movies, opera, and quite a lot of painting -- is about desire, how we manage desire, how we suffer from it, and how it brings us joy when...

Peter Watson

Everything begins by making your audience pay attention.

Chimpanzee: A Novel

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

Carnival: A Novel

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

EL32

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.

Eve's Apple: A Novel

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Fragmente und Studien. Die Christenheit oder Europa

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

Fragmente und Studien. Die Christenheit oder Europa

There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.

Finding Tranquility Base: A Novel

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

Alexei Sayle

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

Joanna Trollope

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Lisa Unger

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Harvey Pekar

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Aspects of the Novel