Quotes of: Novel Keyword

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Peter R. Grant

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Patrick White

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Quentin Tarantino

... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

Roberto Bolano

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Romola Garai

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

Richard Helms

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Russell Lynes

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

Stephan Pastis

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

Salman Rushdie

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

Stuart Woods

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

Tibor Fischer

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

Kate Beckinsale

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

Kim Edwards

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

Khaled Hosseini

A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.

Kevin Nealon

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Lynn Abbey

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Lou Reed

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Monica Ali

I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.

Michael Easton

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

Mark Haddon

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

Mohsin Hamid