Quotes of: Novel Keyword

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Jay McInerney

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Mohsin Hamid

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

Richard Russo

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

Anne Tyler

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.

Noah Baumbach

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.

Steven Saylor

When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.

David Suchet

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

William Peter Blatty

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

Jerry Pournelle

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

Michel Houellebecq

I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.

Antony Beevor

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Dean Koontz

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Gore Vidal

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Patrick White

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Saul Bellow

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

Andrew Davies

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

Alison Weir

Gentle With Them Thar Spurs'—a sequel to 'Riders of the Purple Sau-Sage.' Spurs was the feminist novel of its day…which was Tuesday." —Bats 2015

Fred Barnett