Quotes of: Novel Keyword

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Thomas Steinbeck

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

Michelle MacLaren

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

Donnie Yen

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Stephen Rea

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Irwin Shaw

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

Anita Shreve

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Michael Ondaatje

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in o...

Encounter

4. Men's novels are about how to get power. Killing and so on, or winning and so on. So are women's novels, though the method is different. In men's novels, getting the woman or woman goes along with getting the power. It's a perk, not a means. In wo...

Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.

Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice

I think, therefore I am, dangerous.

Green Day - A Novel of U.N. Totalitarian Control

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917

Quizá mi vida no es más que una serie de momentos de vestirse y desvestirse de nuevo para la tarea en cuestión.

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

I can dream, though - can't I, for myself? Even if you have not the imagination or the soul?

Ruslan: A Novel of Russia

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Lyrical and Critical Essays

Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.

The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile