Quotes of: Novel Keyword

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Siri Hustvedt

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Salvatore Quasimodo

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

Kurt Busiek

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

Aminatta Forna

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Amy Waldman

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

Ayelet Waldman

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Robert Harris

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

Patrick Rothfuss

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

Umberto Eco

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

Umberto Eco

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

Utada Hikaru

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Love

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

Zane Grey

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Zadie Smith

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Jane Smiley

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

Jennifer Weiner

Another thing about pain - it renders you incapable of bullshit.

Cloak of Deceit: An Alex Moore Novel

I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.

The Daddy Rock

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

Echopraxia

Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree: A Novel

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

Orhan Pamuk