Quotes of: Novel Keyword

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

The Luxe

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.

Skirting the Gorge — A Novel

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.

Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time: A Novel

This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.

Stay with Me: A Novel

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not.

Paris, He Said: A Novel

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neck and float up while slowly dying of happiness.

tao lin's third novel

I’m an open book—an open book I’m still writing and editing. My book is a romance novel, sort of like The Secret.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In 1,000 pages of Orafoura’s novel, I noticed he repeated one word twice. It really stood out to me. The word? Sit.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again.

Until the End of Time: A Novel

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel

I spent New Year’s Eve tweezing my nipple hairs. If I were any more romantic, I’d be a Nicholas Sparks novel.

Xazaqazax

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

Akhil Sharma

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

Julia Glass

When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

James Patterson

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed ...

Nathaniel Philbrick

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

In the Skin of a Lion

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

Red Dragon

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'

Glen Duncan