Quotes of: Novel Keyword

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Danse Macabre

He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.

The Emissary: A Novel

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Envy

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

Envy

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel

The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.

The Gypsy Goddess

I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.

The Gormenghast Novels

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

How To Write Science Fiction

In my experience, the romance novels written about BDSM have about as much in common with actual BDSM relationships as a child playing with a jump rope.

Bound to Accept

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

Beauty and Sadness

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Nina Bawden

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

Walter Murch

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Leslie Fiedler

The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.

Lee Hall

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel

Once they're in...they stay in. And that little bitch invited that evil into herself like a hard dick on prom night.

AFTERTASTE: An Extreme Horror Novel

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

Annie, Between the States

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Hellraiser—Mother Jones: An Historical Novel