Quotes of: Novel Keyword

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

Kevin Wilson

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

L.L. Caulton

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Lawrence Durrell

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Laurence Housman

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

Lois Lowry

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

Luke Rhinehart

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

Martin Amis

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Meg Cabot

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Mohsin Hamid

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

Melissa Marr

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Ross MacDonald

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

Ruth Ozeki

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Richard Powers

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Richard Peck

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

A. S. Byatt

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

Manuel Puig

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

Michelle M. Pillow

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

Marguerite Young

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

Nelson DeMille

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Natsuo Kirino