Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

Carnival: A Novel

There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said. "Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it.

The Convert's Song: A Novel

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Death in the Afternoon

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

The Disagreement: A Novel

America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.

The Emissary: A Novel

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

A Familiar Rain

Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

Bellagrand: A Novel

It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")

Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

The Book of Heaven: A Novel

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.

Beware of Love in Technicolor

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

John le Carre

I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

Natsuo Kirino

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

Jonathan Coe

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

Martin Filler

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Mohsin Hamid

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Milan Kundera

I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

10:04

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Aspects of the Novel

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Aspects of the Novel