Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Frank Darabont

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Flannery O'Connor

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Carlos Fuentes

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Chad Harbach

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Caterina Scorsone

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

Cobie Smulders

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

Harold E. Varmus

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Iain Banks

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

Ira Glass

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Jami Attenberg

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid

Jane Austen

The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.

Justin Alcala

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

Julian Barnes

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

John Cale

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Johnny Cash

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

E. M. Forster

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

Ben Elton

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Buchi Emecheta

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

Barbara Kingsolver