Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Neil Gaiman

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

Robert Gottlieb

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

The Art of the Novel

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

Aspects of the Novel

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

Handsome Harry: A Novel

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

The Heroines

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

The Rise of Silas Lapham

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.

The Roman General: A Novel

I was out of Hell Fire and my black market dealer was dead.

Macabre: A Demon Hunter Novel

Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity

Missin' (Novel)

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

Little Manhattan: The Movie Novel

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

Lies: A novel

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.

The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

Red Dragon

Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.

David B. Coe

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.

James Lasdun

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

Ken Follett

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Sharon Kay Penman

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Salman Rushdie

I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.

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