Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

Cassandra Clare

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

George R. R. Martin

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

George Stephen

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Harlan Coben

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Helen Dunmore

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Joseph O'Neill

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

J. K. Rowling

Love a girl and she will give you a story to tell, Love a woman and she will give you a novel to pen...

Dinesh Kumar Biran

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Daniel Clowes

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Daniel Craig

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

David L. Cohn

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

David Frum

Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.

Dean Karnazes

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Donna Leon

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

James M. Cain

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

John Irving

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

John Irving

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

Cynthia Kenyon

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

Colm Toibin

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

J. A. Jance