Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

Mary Karr

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Mary McCarthy

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

Ruth Ozeki

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Powers

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Maggie Stiefvater

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Maria Semple

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Mo Yan

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

Ned Beauman

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly." [ , The Guardian, 19 February 2013]

Colm Toibin

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

Elizabeth Moon

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

Samuel R. Delany

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Jan Karon

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Anne Tyler

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Jacqueline Leo

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

Neil Cross

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Janet Frame

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

Kim Edwards

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

Carlos Fuentes

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

J. H. Wyman

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Michel Houellebecq